Ecology and Evolution of Darwin’s Finches

Abstract

Being old enough to remember the era of vinyl record albums, in which record companies often repackaged the same songs in reissues which usually differed only in the album cover, I was transported back to those days by this book. Not because Peter Grant has suddenly become a country-and-western singer, but because Princeton University Press has copied the recording industry's tactics of the 1970s by reissuing his 1986 classic book on Darwin's finches, complete with new cover and the equivalent of 'liner' notes in a foreward by Jonathan Weiner.