Lack, David. Darwin’s Finches. 1st. Ed. Reissue Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1983
pp.liii, 208 with colour, b/w. plates and illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. This edition contains a new introduction and notes not present in the first edition
Described by him as “a work of natural history, based on a study of living birds in the Galapagos and of dead specimens in museums”, Lack has attemped to trace the successive stages of the evolution of Galapagos finches from trivial differences between species to much more striking adaptations.
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