On Darwin’s Trouble with the Finches
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Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands
by Edward Larson.
Penguin, 320 pp., £8.99, February 2002,0 14 100503 3 Show More
by Edward Larson.
Penguin, 320 pp., £8.99, February 2002,
“... spot’. The islands’ blasted aspect, however, made them unpopular with visitors. Herman Melville, who visited in 1841, had the usual reaction: ‘Take five-and-twenty heaps of cinders dumped here and there in an outsize city lot, imagine some of them magnified into mountains, and the vacant lot the sea; and you will have a fit idea of the ... ”