Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time

English

Series: Vintage Ser.

ISBN: 067973337X

EAN: 9780679733379

Category: Travel / South America / Ecuador & Galapagos Islands/Science / Life Sciences / Evolution/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 05/31/1995

Synopsis: 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 Darwins finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finchis an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.

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Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.7 inches

Width: 5.2 inches

Length: 7.95 inches

Weight: 11.46 oz

Pages: 352