On the backs of tortoises Darwin, the Galapagos, and the fate of an evolutionary Eden
The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- What we stand on
- In Darwin's footsteps
- What's in a name?
- The many worlds at world's end
- Making a natural laboratory
- Restoring evolution
- Laboratory life
- All the way down.
