40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691263229)

A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finches

40 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 vast and unparalleled range of ecological, behavioral, and genetic data to continuously measure changes in finch populations over a period of four decades on the small island of Daphne Major in the Gal?pagos archipelago. In the years since the book's publication, the field of genomics has developed greatly. In this newly revised edition of 40 Years of Evolution, the Grants combine the results of their historic field study with genomic analyses of their primary findings, resolve unanswered questions from the field, and provide invaluable insights into the genetic basis of beak and body size variation and the history of this iconic adaptive radiation.

Author: Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant
ISBN-10: 0691263221
ISBN-13: 9780691263229
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d