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  • 40 Years of Evolution

    Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

    by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant ...
    A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 40 Years of Evolution

    Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island

    by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant ...
    An important look at a groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finchesRenowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galápagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In How and Why Species Multiply, they offered a complete evolutionary history of Darwin's finches since their origin almost three million years ago. Now, in their richly ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • In Search of the Causes of Evolution

    From Field Observations to Mechanisms

    Edited by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant ...
    Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, and genetics. This book brings together many of today's pioneers in evolutionary biology to describe the latest advances and explain why a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach to ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Enchanted by Daphne

    The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist

    by Peter R. Grant ...
    The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolutionEnchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant’s personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II–era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galápagos archipelago, vividly describing what it's like ... Read more

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  • A Primer of Conservation Genetics

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