The Beak of the Finch,9780679733379

The Beak of the Finch

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780679733379
ISBN10: 067973337X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-05-30
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

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 Finchis an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

PART ONE: EVOLUTION IN THE FLESH 3(112)
1. Daphne Major
3(14)
2. What Darwin Saw
17(20)
3. Infinite Variety
37(12)
4. Darwin's Beaks
49(21)
5. A Special Providence
70(13)
6. Darwin's Forces
83(16)
7. Twenty-five Thousand Darwins
99(16)
PART TWO: NEW BEINGS ON THIS EARTH 115(98)
8. Princeton
115(11)
9. Creation by Variation
126(14)
10. The Ever-Turning Sword
140(17)
11. Invisible Coasts
157(20)
12. Cosmic Partings
177(13)
13. Fusion or Fission?
190(13)
14. New Beings
203(10)
PART THREE: G.O.D. 213(81)
15. Invisible Characters
213(11)
16. The Gigantic Experiment
224(12)
17. The Stranger's Power
236(15)
18. The Resistance Movement
251(16)
19. A Partner in the Process
267(11)
20. The Metaphysical Crossbeak
278(16)
Epilogue: God and the Galapagos 294(11)
Bibliography 305(18)
Acknowledgments 323(2)
Index 325

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