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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

new evidence on which to maintain their claims that evolu-

tion was scientific. At this point, the story of the Galapagos
finches came to be regarded as saviors.
These birds became the focus of wide-ranging studies.
Many evolutionists issued statements based on their obser-
vations. In an article in the April 1953 Scientific American,
David Lack claimed that the evolution of the birds on the
Galapagos Islands had taken place recently, for which rea-

son the islands were an exceptional place. 229 Another evolu-
tionist, Peter Grant, even maintained that the Galapagos
finches were still evolving. 230
One can see the names of Peter and Rosemary Grant in
most articles and papers about these finches. These two re-
searchers first went to the Galapagos Islands in 1973 with the
aim of seeing the effect of evolution on the finches, and have
carried out detailed observations and studies ever since.
They are thus considered experts on Darwin's finches. 231

Peter Grant and His Wife on the Galapagos

These two, who are currently continuing their research
at Princeton University's department of Ecology and

Evolutionary Biology, spent many years on Daphne Major,
one of the tiny Galapagos Islands, studying the middle

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