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The beak of the finch : a story of evolution in our time / Jonathan Weiner.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679400036 :
- Physical Description: x, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf : c1994.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Maps on end papers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Daphne major -- What Darwin saw -- Infinite variety -- Darwin's beaks -- A special providence -- Darwin's forces -- Twenty-five thousand Darwins -- Princeton -- Creation by variation -- The ever-turning sword -- Invisible coasts -- Cosmic partings -- Fusion or fission? -- New beings -- Invisible characters -- The gigantic experiment -- The stranger's power - The resistance movement -- A partner in the process -- The metaphysical crossbeak. |
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| Subject: | Finches > Galapagos Islands > Evolution. Finches > Evolution > Research > Galapagos Islands. Grant, Peter R., 1936- Grant, B. Rosemary. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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| Burlington Public Library | 598.883 WEINER 1994 | 39851000413485 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |