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Enchanted by Daphne
The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist
Buch von Peter R. Grant
Sprache: Englisch

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"The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II-era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galâapagos archipelago, vividly describing what it is like to do fieldwork in one of the most magnificent yet inhospitable places on Earth. This is also the story of two brilliant and courageous biologists as they raised a family together while balancing the demands of professional lives that would take them to the far corners of the globe. In 1973, Grant and his wife Rosemary embarked on a journey that would fundamentally change how we think about evolution. Over the next four decades, they visited the Galâapagos every year to observe Darwin's famous finches on the remote, uninhabited island of Daphne Major. Documenting how eighteen species have diversified from a single ancestral species, they demonstrated that we could actually see and measure evolution in a natural setting. Grant recounts the blind alleys and breathtaking triumphs of this historic research as he and Rosemary followed in Darwin's footsteps-and ushered in a new era in ecology. A wonderfully absorbing portrait of a life in science, Enchanted by Daphne is an unforgettable chronicle of the travels and discoveries of one of the world's most influential naturalists"--
"The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II-era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galâapagos archipelago, vividly describing what it is like to do fieldwork in one of the most magnificent yet inhospitable places on Earth. This is also the story of two brilliant and courageous biologists as they raised a family together while balancing the demands of professional lives that would take them to the far corners of the globe. In 1973, Grant and his wife Rosemary embarked on a journey that would fundamentally change how we think about evolution. Over the next four decades, they visited the Galâapagos every year to observe Darwin's famous finches on the remote, uninhabited island of Daphne Major. Documenting how eighteen species have diversified from a single ancestral species, they demonstrated that we could actually see and measure evolution in a natural setting. Grant recounts the blind alleys and breathtaking triumphs of this historic research as he and Rosemary followed in Darwin's footsteps-and ushered in a new era in ecology. A wonderfully absorbing portrait of a life in science, Enchanted by Daphne is an unforgettable chronicle of the travels and discoveries of one of the world's most influential naturalists"--
Über den Autor
Peter R. Grant
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 360
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691246246
ISBN-10: 0691246246
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Grant, Peter R.
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Abbildungen: 50 b/w illus.
Maße: 240 x 161 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Peter R. Grant
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,738 kg
preigu-id: 122088521
Über den Autor
Peter R. Grant
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 360
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691246246
ISBN-10: 0691246246
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Grant, Peter R.
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Abbildungen: 50 b/w illus.
Maße: 240 x 161 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Peter R. Grant
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,738 kg
preigu-id: 122088521
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