The Beak of the Finch

Weiner, Jonathan

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Author
Weiner, Jonathan
Publish Date
06/01/1995
Subtitle
A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Book Type
paperback
Number of Pages
332
Publisher Name
RNDMHSE
ISBN-10
067973337X
ISBN-13
9780679733379
citemno
133430
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780679733379

Description

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World).

“Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner’s triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review

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.