GRANT, Peter Raymond (1936 – )
1936 –
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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2006 CE
#14066
Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.
Through their more than 40 year study of Darwin's finches on the Island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, the Grants demonstrated how natural selection can drive rapid changes in body and beak size in response to chan…
2015 CE
#14067
Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.
The authors sequenced the genome of 120 individuals representing all of Darwin’s finches. They found that a 240 kilobase haplotype encompassing the ALX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor affecting crani…