DISTILLED into 200 pages, this is the life鈥檚 work of two of evolutionary biology鈥檚 greatest advocates, Peter and Rosemary Grant. For 35 years they have lived and worked in the Galapagos, where they studied Darwin鈥檚 famous finches in extraordinary detail, witnessing colonisation, adaptation, extinction and the origin of species. In this book they meld insights from geography, behaviour, ecology and genetics to paint a complex but compelling picture of the evolutionary process. Not a racy read, but still a must-have primer for any biology student.
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Princeton University Press