false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171899907m/125286.jpg 125286 9 Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the time of the author's visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about twenty generations of finches -- continuously.<br> Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. 2466 1994 The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time total:587|5:216|4:255|3:89|2:22|1:5| 587 2416 856 106 5 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 11:03:50 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 11:26:25 -0700 2007
When I joined Goodreads a few months back, I set two rules for myself: first, to review books as I read or re-read them, and second, to be sparing with my ratings. I've not given any book five stars this summer. This is the first.

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Had some interesting biology stuff. Not very dense. Lots of story. Cool stuff at the end about pesticides and hybridization.


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