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40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island

Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant - 2014 - 432 páginas
Renowned 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 ...
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In Search of the Causes of Evolution: From Field Observations to Mechanisms

Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant - 2010 - 410 páginas
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 ...
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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

Peter R. Grant - 1999 - 540 páginas
This text looks at how much has been learnt about the Darwin's Finch since Darwin's initial observations. It shows how interspecific competition and natural selection produce ...
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Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the ...

B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant - 1989 - 394 páginas
The result of one of the most detailed and careful examinations of the behavior and ecology of a vertebrate ever conducted in the wild, this study addresses one of the major ...
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Molds, Molecules, and Metazoa: Growing Points in Evolutionary Biology

Peter R. Grant, Henry S. Horn - 2014 - 194 páginas
Through an integration of systematics, genetics, and related disciplines, the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology came into being over fifty years ago. Knowledge of ...
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Darwin's Finches: Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Kathleen Donohue - 2011 - 510 páginas
Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands—the giant tortoises and Darwin’s fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these ...
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The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation

Dolph Schluter - 2000 - 302 páginas
Adaptive radiation is the evolution of diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage. It can cause a single ancestral species to differentiate into an impressively vast array ...
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