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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Audiobook) By Jonathan Weiner, read by Victor Bevine
Unabridged edition 2010 | 12 hours and 14 mins | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B003XJL0R2 | MP3 96 kbps | 475 MB
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spent 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously. Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
What the Critics Say
Pulitzer Prize, General Non-Fiction, 1995
AudioFile Earphones Award, 2010
"An engaging account of a seminal study that introduces the reader to Darwin and to the dedicated, tireless biologists who have proved him right." (Booklist)
"Narrator Victor Bevines English accents include Australian, American, and British, with seamless switches to Ecuadorian Spanish. He senses just the right pace for his well-pronounced deluge of scientific words and arguments. His enthusiasm for what the finch studies demonstrated heralds the Grants momentous contribution to our knowledge of biology today." (AudioFile)
"Evocative writing, exhaustive research, and Weiner's memorable portrait of the engaging Grants assure The Beak of the Finch membership in the select pantheon of science books that spark not just the intellect, but the imagination." (Washington Post Book World)
Table of Contents
1. Daphne major
2. What Darwin saw
3. Infinite variety
4. Darwin's beaks
5. A special providence
6. Darwin's forces
7. Twenty-five thousand Darwins
8. Princeton
9. Creation by variation
10. The ever-turning sword
11. Invisible coasts
12. Cosmic partings
13. Fusion or fission
14. New beings
15. Invisible characters
16. The giganitic experiment
17. The stranger's power
18. The resistance movement
19. A partner in the process
20. The metaphysical crossbeak
21. Epilogue
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