Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands the giant tortoises and Darwin s fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most familiar and charismatic research systems in biology, providing generations of natural historians and scientists a lens through which to view the evolutionary process and its role in morphological differentiation.
In "Darwin s Finches," Kathleen Donohue excerpts and collects the most illuminating and scientifically significant writings on the...
Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands the giant tortoises and Darwin s fabled finches. While not as immediately captiva...
From the congressional debate over the "fall of China" to the drama of the Army--McCarthy hearings to the kitchen faceoff between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the political history of the early Cold War was long dominated by studies of presidential administrations, anticommunism, and foreign policy. In Liberty and Justice for All? a group of distinguished historians representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives -- social history, cultural history, intellectual history, labor history, urban history, women's history, African American studies, and media studies -- expand on the...
From the congressional debate over the "fall of China" to the drama of the Army--McCarthy hearings to the kitchen faceoff between Richard Nixon and...
