As new hardcover of the First Edition in dust jacket. Price sticker on back of dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An account of Peter & Rosemary Grant's evolutionary studies in the Galapagos. They spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory.

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Title: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679400036
ISBN 13: 9780679400035
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 26 ounces

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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.

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Jonathan Weiner, formerly a writer and editor for The Sciences, is the author of Planet Earth and The Next One Hundred Years. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their two sons.

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