Cell Biology, Genetics & Neuroscience | Narratives & Key Experiments - Genetics - Evolution in action

Peter and Rosemary Grant grew up in England, Rosemary fascinated with fossils and Peter collecting flower and insects. However, only as young professional biologists in Vancouver, Canada, did they first meet, which led to their marriage and a long, fruitful scientific collaboration. Year-after-year for 40 years, the Grants studied the Galápagos finches, work that demonstrated the process of evolution and garnered them the Royal Medal and the Darwin Medal. Their work was popularized in the Pulitzer Prize winning book “The Beak of the Finch.” “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved,” wrote Charles Darwin in “The Origin of Species.” However, Darwin never directly observed evolution and thought that such processes transpired slowly over millennia. A century later, Peter and Rosemary Grant returned to the Galápagos to investigate whether they could observe evolution of “Darwin’s” finches as they endured years of drought or heavy rain. Getting to kn

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