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“antibiotic resistance is increasing so rapidly that many physicians are calling it a global epidemic.”

“But genes are not fixed.”

“The birds pass invisible messages back and forth, swapping genes as casually as good neighbors exchange recipes, tools, or limericks.”

“The girls built driftwood rafts and did their homework in the middle of the lagoon.”

“Singing the right song is important; a finch that learns the wrong song is in trouble.”

“If they choose a mate within the line , they stand to perpetuate the new adaptation. If they do not, they stand to lose the adaptation."

“In the struggle for existence one variety or species must often squeeze another. Nearest neighbors, closest cousins, will pinch each other very hard, generation after generation.”

“The closer you look at life , the more rapid and intense the rate of evolutionary change. The farther back in time you stand, the less you see.”

“Not only can evolution push a species fast in one direction. Evolution can reverse direction and push it back just as swiftly.”

“The great the pressure from their predators, the more camouflage they wear: the less the pressure, the slighter the camouflage.”

“So the birds were not simply magnified by the drought: they were reformed and revised. They were changed by their dead. Their beaks were carved by their losses.”

“A finch that weighed less than 30 grams was once seen rolling over a rock that weighed almost 400. That is like a man rolling a boulder that weighs one ton.”

“One millimeter beneath the future of Ian Abbott’s genetic lineage, a single barnacle towered above the rest.”

“finches would peck at the wart”

“At the Charles Darwin Research station, on the island of Santa Cruz, the staff has a saying: “Only God and Peter Grant can recognize Darwin's finches.”

“When we look around us in the Galapagos or in Jersey or New Jersey, the species of animals and plants we see are survivors.”

“The act of creation would be much to slow to observe any motion in his lifetime, because evolution proceeds at a barnacles pace.”

“The act of creation would be much to slow to observe any motion in his lifetime, because evolution proceeds at a barnacles pace.”