Ecology And Evolution Of Darwin's Finches Hardcover 2017

Peter R. Grant

After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade's research, Grant shows how interspecific competition and natural selection act strongly enough on contemporary populations to produce observable and measurable evolutionary change.

9780691628943

English

Princeton University Press

3/21/2017

512

Jonathan Weiner

2017

Peter Grant - Winner of the 2017 Royal Medal in Biology, The Royal Society