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Library Journal : This is an account of Peter and Rosemary Grant's research on the microevolutionary modifications that occur in finch beaks as they adapt to environmental changes. Analysis of data collected from 18,000 birds on a Galapagos island over 21 years conclusively demonstrates that the pressures of natural selection are currently altering wild populations. Also, by incorporating others' work on present-day evolutionary variations in fish, insects, and microbes, Weiner (The Next One Hundred Years, LJ 2/1/90) challenges the concept of evolution as a time-frozen process. Harmonized with the writings of Charles Darwin, this book provides the facts to bring alive evolution as an ongoing process. Highly recommended for general collections, but informed readers would do better with Peter Grant's own Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Univ. Pr., 1986).-Frank Reiser, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.
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Peter and Rosemary Grant have worked side by side for 35 years in the Galapagos Islands, the famed Pacific archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution. The Grants have followed in Darwin’s footsteps, conducting the most significant evolutionary field study of all time. Their work on Darwin’s finches demonstrates how natural selection produces species that exquisitely match their environments. The Grants and their adventures in the Galapagos are the subject of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. As a couple who have spent much of their career living isolated on tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Grants have many captivating tales to tell.
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Subjects of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Beak of the Finch, Peter and Rosemary Grant discuss their 20 years of fascinating research into evolution, ecology and behavior among Darwin's Finches of the Galápagos Islands. Distinguished Visting Fellows in the College of Creative Studies, the Grants are professors at Princeton University.
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In February 2004, Douglas & McIntyre published Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World, a book co-authored by Mr. Grant and Chris Wood. The book focuses on the economics of popular culture, the efforts to provide diversity of expression around the world and the impact of technology and trade law on the dissemination of cultural products. The book has been called "brilliant and sweeping" by the Toronto Star.
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