A book that reads as easily as a good novel, while adroitly
conveying information
*Sunday Times*
Jonathan Weiner's powerful and elegant book is a meditation on
Darwinism, from its beginnings to our current planetary crisis...
At its core is a study of the changes that are still happening to
the 13 finch species that inhabit the Galapagos Islands. They are
famous ( and fabled) birds, whose eccentric adaptations to the raw,
unformed habitats of these young volcanoes gave Darwin one of the
crucial clues in the development of his theory of "the Origin of
the Species by means of Natural Selection"
*Independent on Sunday*
No other book has displayed so dramatically the tiny but momentous
changes that are taking place all around us in the living world.
Darwin would be cheering
*Evening Standard*
The subtle interweaving of historical fact, hard scientific detail
and humorous anecdote makes this the kind of popular science
writing to which many authors aspire but which so few achieve
*Economist*
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