WEINER, Jonathan [Edward Wilson; Chip Kidd].
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1994.
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First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Inscribed by Jonathan Weiner to Naturalist Edward O. Wilson and Signed by Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to naturalist Edward O. Wilson, "For Edward, with best wishes, Jonathan Weiner May, 2016." Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear jacket flap. The recipient, Edward Osborne Wilson, was an American biologist, naturalist, and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author widely regarded as one of the greatest natural scientists of the twentieth century, whose career at Harvard University across nearly five decades produced foundational contributions to entomology, evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and the theory of sociobiology that permanently transformed our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans alike. His seminal works include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (1978), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler), which also won a Pulitzer Prize, and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), in which he argued with characteristic audacity that all branches of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the humanities, are fundamentally unified by a small number of natural laws. A Harvard University professor for 46 years who authored more than 430 scientific papers and more than 20 books on the natural sciences, Wilson received more than 150 international awards and was honored by the World Science Festival on his eightieth birthday as a figure whose intellectual legacy spanned the full breadth of the life sciences. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Drawings by K. Thalia Grant. From the library of Edward O. Wilson.
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
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