By Ted R. Anderson
Most folks who've taken a biology direction some time past 50 years are accustomed to the paintings of David Lack, yet few take into account his identify. just about all normal biology texts produced in the course of that interval have a determine displaying the beak measurement alterations one of the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's 1947 vintage, Darwin's Finches. Lack's pioneering conclusions in Darwin's Finches mark the start of a brand new medical self-discipline, evolutionary ecology. Tim Birkhead, in his acclaimed ebook, The knowledge of Birds, calls Lack the 'hero of contemporary ornithology.' Who used to be this influential, but rather unknown guy? The lifetime of David Lack, Father of Evolutionary Ecology offers a solution to that query in response to Ted Anderson's own interviews with colleagues, kinfolk and previous scholars in addition to fabric within the wide Lack Archive at Oxford University.
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