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In this passage, author Jonathan Weiner lays out the central thesis of his book The Beak of the Finch: the argument that natural selection and evolution are ongoing, everyday processes rather than rare events.
This passage is significant because it lays the groundwork for Weiner’s investigation into the complex science of evolution, which is at present best observed on the isolated Galápagos island of Daphne Major, where Darwin’s finches live. The finches are a highly variable, highly adaptable group of species that coexist throughout the Galápagos archipelago. From season to season and year to year, field scientists like Peter…