| The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time |  | Author: Jonathan Weiner
Brand: PBS
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 13,956
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Vintage Bks Ed, Jun. 1995
Pages: 332
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 0.7 x 8
MPN: BKFN855
ISBN: 067973337X
EAN: 9780679733379
Publication Date: May 30, 1995
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch.
In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.
Amazon.com Review
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the time of the author's visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about twenty generations of finches -- continuously.
Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
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