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The Galapagos Finch's Tale is an example of how quickly evolution can happen. Peter Grant and his students went to the Galapagos Islands every year to study finches. In 1977, a drought caused a drop in the food supply. The team calculated that the survivors were more than 5% larger. Also, the average beak size was larger in the surviving group.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. Neil Shubin (2008). Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan (2002). Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence. Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan (2006). The Top 10 Myths About Evolution.
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (ISBN 0-679-40003-6) is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner. It won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [1] In 2014, a substantially unchanged 20th-anniversary edition e-book was issued with a preface by the author.
In his book, Fertilisation of Orchids (1862), Darwin proposed that the orchid flowers were adapted from pre-existing parts, through natural selection. [ 17 ] Darwin was still researching and experimenting with his ideas on natural selection when he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace describing a theory very similar to his own.
The basic mechanisms of evolution are applied directly or indirectly to come up with novel designs or solve problems that are difficult to solve otherwise. The research generated in these applied fields, contribute towards progress, especially from work on evolution in computer science and engineering fields such as mechanical engineering. [6]
The book chronicles the evolution of dinosaurs, their rise as the dominant clade, and ends with an account of their extinction from the Chicxulub asteroid. It also includes a discussion of the evolution of feathered dinosaurs and birds' descent from dinosaurs, and an epilogue of sorts discussing the post-dinosaur emergence of mammals.
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On the Origin of Species – 1859 book on evolution by Charles Darwin; Caricatures of Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory in 19th-century England; Darwinism – Theory of biological evolution; History of evolutionary thought. By period or event Evolutionary ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment – Changes in evolutionary philosophies