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Review: How and Why Species Multiply by Peter R Grant and Rosemary Grant

By Henry Nicholls

16 January 2008

DISTILLED into 200 pages, this is the life’s work of two of evolutionary biology’s greatest advocates, Peter and Rosemary Grant. For 35 years they have lived and worked in the Galapagos, where they studied Darwin’s famous finches in extraordinary detail, witnessing colonisation, adaptation, extinction and the origin of species. In this book they meld insights from geography, behaviour, ecology and genetics to paint a complex but compelling picture of the evolutionary process. Not a racy read, but still a must-have primer for any biology student.

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