{"product_id":"the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-evolution-in-our-time-9780679733379","title":"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that \"spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination\" (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner's triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this remarkable story, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. \u003ci\u003eThe Beak of the Finch\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN WEINER is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beak of the Finch\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTime, Love, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHis Brother's Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Next One Hundred Years\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003ePlanet Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613501100306,"sku":"9780679733379","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0161ce3b-f5dc-4947-bf9d-d2c83551b533.jpg?v=1732404670","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-evolution-in-our-time-9780679733379","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}