Comments on: A Big Prize For Finch Beaks http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:25:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gerdien de Jong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/comment-page-1/#comment-19481 Gerdien de Jong Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:36:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/#comment-19481 Especially satisfying is that the prize goes to Rosemary Grant too. Especially satisfying is that the prize goes to Rosemary Grant too.

]]> By: John Kwok http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/comment-page-1/#comment-19462 John Kwok Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:55:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/#comment-19462 Carl, Just read again your original post from last fall, and it reads like a concise summary of the talk I heard B. Rosemary Grant give a few months ago. Only additional comment that I might make is that their principal collaborator at Harvard University is a young evolutionary developmental biologist, Arkhat Abzhanov, who may be the only Kazakh scientist working here in the USA. Carl,

Just read again your original post from last fall, and it reads like a concise summary of the talk I heard B. Rosemary Grant give a few months ago. Only additional comment that I might make is that their principal collaborator at Harvard University is a young evolutionary developmental biologist, Arkhat Abzhanov, who may be the only Kazakh scientist working here in the USA.

]]> By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/comment-page-1/#comment-19452 David B. Benson Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:13:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/#comment-19452 :-) :-)

]]> By: John Kwok http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/comment-page-1/#comment-19447 John Kwok Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:40:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/19/a-big-prize-for-finch-beaks/#comment-19447 Wow, what a well-deserved honor to two brilliant scientists and two very humble, extremely friendly people (I had the honor of hearing them talk about their work earlier this spring here in New York City and spoke to both briefly afterwards.). For those who don't know why their work is so importan, it is the best long-term study I know of studying natural selection in the wild - not merely because the study animals in question are Darwin's Finches - and one that is still ongoing. Wow, what a well-deserved honor to two brilliant scientists and two very humble, extremely friendly people (I had the honor of hearing them talk about their work earlier this spring here in New York City and spoke to both briefly afterwards.). For those who don’t know why their work is so importan, it is the best long-term study I know of studying natural selection in the wild – not merely because the study animals in question are Darwin’s Finches – and one that is still ongoing.

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