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The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Read: January 2019
A great book about evolution and about one of the most exciting studies of animals in the wild. 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction. Over a 40 year period, evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant studied Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos, surprising themselves with how quickly they were able to observe evolution in action.
Read: May 2019
Ecologist and evolutionary biologist David Haskell studies the connected lives in a patch of earth a meter diameter in size. The study takes place over the course of a year in old-growth forest in the hills of Sewanee, Tennessee. Meditative, poetic, and always amusing.
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