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In the final lines of his book The Beak of the Finch, author Jonathan Weiner uses this passage to meditate on the continuous nature of evolution and change on our planet.
Just as the Galápagos islands as we know them today were once at the bottom of the ocean, the formations researchers have found at the bottom of the ocean today are believed to have once been islands of their own. The continual (though slow) rise and fall of these islands highlights the impermanence and constant fluctuation of life on Earth. Just as the finches of the Galápagos are…