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Article: How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches.(Book review)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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HOW AND WHY SPECIES MULTIPLY: THE RADIATION OF DARWIN'S FINCHES. By Peter R. Grant and B. R. Grant. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 2008: xix and 218 pages, 31 color plates, 58 figures, 3 tables, 442 references. ISBN 978-0-691-13360-7. $35.00 (hard cover).--The authors have observed Darwin's finches in the Galapagos Islands over 34 years, surely a record long-term field study of birds. The book describes their comprehensive field studies. The introduction presents four theses: (1) molecular biology traces the evolutionary history of species; (2) the finches have evolved ecological divergence, but this has not led to sterility between the species; ...