Trevor Price was a student of Peter Grant’s who was stationed on Daphne Major beginning in 1979. During his tenure on the island, Price observed the “comedy of sexual selection” that influenced how the finches mated, passed on their traits, and evolved. Price began to believe that selection on the island had begun to favor smaller birds with smaller beaks, and that an external force like a weather event might be able to tip the scales and begin the selection event in earnest. But Price’s watch ended before the heavy rains of 1981 reached the archipelago.
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Chapter 6: Darwin’s Forces
The next “watch” over Daphne Major fell to the researcher Trevor Price, a student of Peter Grant’s who landed on the island early in 1979. Because of...
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...nature scrutinizes the birds, but in times of plenty, the birds scrutinize one another. Trevor Price watched as the island became a “comedy of sexual selection” rather than the “tragedy of...
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As Trevor Price’s time on the island drew to a close, the members of Princeton’s Finch Unit had...
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But the rains didn’t come—and Price traveled to the other islands of the Galápagos to kill time as he grew increasingly...
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Epilogue: God and the Galápagos
Trevor Price, Lisle Gibbs, Peter Boag, Laurene Ratcliffe, and Dolph Schluter continue their research projects around the...
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