40 Years of Evolution av Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant

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<p><b>A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches</b><br><br><i>40 Years of Evolution</i> 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¿gos archipelago. In the years since the book’s publication, the field of genomics has developed greatly. In this newly revised edition of <i>40 Years of Evolution</i>, 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 in