The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time

Name: The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
Author: Jonathan Weiner
ISBN: 9781101872963

Jonathan Weiner

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Jonathan Weiner

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#143 of 3,809 books · #11 in Science & Technology

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1995) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1994).

The Beak of the Finch won 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 remarkable story, 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.

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