More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the
workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely
overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in
the 1830's. It was Darwin who recognized that Galapagos' isolation
and desolation were advantages: the paucity of species and lack of
outside influences made the workings of natural selection crystal
clear. Since then, every important advance and controversy in
evolutionary thinking has had its reflection on the Galapagos. In
every sense-intellectually, institutionally, and culturally-the
history of science on these islands is a history of the way
evolutionary science was done for the past 150 years.Evolution's
Workshop tells the story of Darwin's explorations there; the
fabulous Gilded Age expeditions, run from rich men's gigantic
yachts, that featured rough-and-ready science during the day and
black-tie dinners every night; the struggle for control of research
on the Galapagos; the current efforts by "creation scientists" to
use the Galapagos to undercut evolutionary teaching; and many other
compelling stories.
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