GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
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discovered pores or cells in a piece of cork he was viewing under a microscope
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Peter and Rosemary Grant is a married couple from British, each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major.
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co-founded the cell theory which establishes the basic properties of cells.
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discovered little animals swimming about in a sample of lake water.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Peter and Rosemary Grant are distinguished for their remarkable long-term studies demonstrating evolution in action in Galápagos finches. They have demonstrated how very rapid changes in body and beak size in response to changes in the food supply are driven by natural selection.
Detailed explanation-2: -My research focuses on the maintenance of phenotypic variation and the process of speciation in natural environments. Together with my husband Peter Grant I have been studying Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973.
Detailed explanation-3: -Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey, have spent nearly four decades watching finches on Daphne Major, in the Galapagos archipelago where Darwin, too, studied finches. The birds later figured prominently in his discussions of variation and natural selection.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1973, the Grants began their decades-long study of finches in the Galápagos Islands – observing how drought and shortage of food forced the birds to adapt, leading to evolutionary changes in the species.