- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, the book describes the highly variable beaks of Darwin’s finches. The beak of the finch is the book’s central symbol, illustrating the unbelievable observability of evolution in action. As author Jonathan Weiner describes the tool-like nature of the finches’ variable beaks, he is telling his readers how essential differently formed beaks are to the many species of finch found throughout the Galápagos. Based on the unique pressures of their similar but minutely different environment, these finches have evolved bills that will help them survive and thrive in their particular conditions. Because the finches have, over time, evolved…