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How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology) $26.79 Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations, and that the driving mechanism of evolutionary change was natural selection. In this concise, accessible book, Peter and Rosemary Grant explain what we have learned about the origin and evo... |
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Darwin's Finches (Cambridge Science Classics) $22.60 David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one of the most succinct and fascinating treatises ever written about the origin of new species. The 1947 version is reproduced with facsimile pages of the original text, tables and line illustrations. T... |
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Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle $14.16 When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked ""more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world."" But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes... |
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