Peter and Rosemary Grant
| Peter Raymond Grant | |
|---|---|
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The significance of some insular characteristics in birds (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ian McTaggart-Cowan |
| Doctoral students | |
| Known for | Darwin's finches |
| Influences | Miklos Udvardy |
| Spouse | Rosemary Grant |
| Barbara Rosemary Grant | |
|---|---|
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Staffan Ulfstrand |
| Known for | Darwin's finches |
| Spouse | Peter Grant |
Peter Raymond Grant FRS FRSC and Barbara Rosemary Grant FRS FRSC are a British couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University. Each currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are known for their work concerning Darwin's finches on Daphne Major, one of the Galápagos islands. The Grants have spent six months of every year since 1973 capturing, tagging, and taking blood samples of the finches on the island. It has been their life's work to show that natural selection can be seen within a single lifetime, or even within a couple of years. Darwin originally thought that natural selection was a long, drawn out process. The Grants have shown that these changes in populations can happen very quickly.
In 1994, they were awarded the Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The Grants were the subject of the book The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), , which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1995.[1]
In 2003, the Grants were joint recipients of the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award. They won the 2005 Balzan Prize for Population Biology [2]. The Balzan Prize citation states:
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