How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches. Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology. By Peter R. Grant and, B. Rosemary Grant. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $35.00. xxi + 218 p. + 31 pl.; ill.; author and subject indexes. 978‐0‐691‐13360‐7. 2008.

A. Townsend Peterson

doi:10.1086/592628

How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches. Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology. By Peter R. Grant and, B. Rosemary Grant. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $35.00. xxi + 218 p. + 31 pl.; ill.; author and subject indexes. 978‐0‐691‐13360‐7. 2008.

The Quarterly Review of Biology ◽

10.1086/592628 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 83 (3) ◽

pp. 304-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Townsend Peterson

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New Jersey ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Darwin's Finches ◽

Princeton University ◽

Darwin’S Finches

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40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island. By Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $49.50. xxxii + 400 p.; ill.; subject index. ISBN: 978-0-691-16046-7. 2014.

The Quarterly Review of Biology ◽

10.1086/679927 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 90 (1) ◽

pp. 89-89

Author(s):

Frederick R. Davis

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Darwin's Finches ◽

Princeton University ◽

Darwin’S Finches

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Grant, P. R. 1986. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., Cloth $ 55, pbk. $ 22.50

Journal of Evolutionary Biology ◽

10.1046/j.1420-9101.1998.1030281.x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 281-283

Author(s):

Joseph Travis

Keyword(s):

Darwin's Finches ◽

Princeton University ◽

Darwin’S Finches

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Darwin's Galápagos finches in modern biology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2009.0321 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 365 (1543) ◽

pp. 1001-1007 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Arhat Abzhanov

Keyword(s):

Natural Selection ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Niche Partitioning ◽

Morphological Diversity ◽

Theme Issue ◽

Modern Biology ◽

Wide Audience ◽

Darwin's Finches ◽

Darwin’S Finches

One of the classic examples of adaptive radiation under natural selection is the evolution of 15 closely related species of Darwin's finches (Passeriformes), whose primary diversity lies in the size and shape of their beaks. Since Charles Darwin and other members of the Beagle expedition collected these birds on the Galápagos Islands in 1835 and introduced them to science, they have been the subjects of intense research. Many biology textbooks use Darwin's finches to illustrate a variety of topics of evolutionary theory, such as speciation, natural selection and niche partitioning. Today, as this Theme Issue illustrates, Darwin's finches continue to be a very valuable source of biological discovery. Certain advantages of studying this group allow further breakthroughs in our understanding of changes in recent island biodiversity, mechanisms of speciation and hybridization, evolution of cognitive behaviours, principles of beak/jaw biomechanics as well as the underlying developmental genetic mechanisms in generating morphological diversity. Our objective was to bring together some of the key workers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology who study Darwin's finches or whose studies were inspired by research on Darwin's finches. Insights provided by papers collected in this Theme Issue will be of interest to a wide audience.

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