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Finch Researchers Win Kyoto Prize
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Peter and Rosemary Grant, emeritus
professors at Princeton University who were
the first to document natural selection in
action, have won the 2009 Kyoto Prize in the
category of Basic Sciences for their work on
evolutionary adaptations in response to
environmental flux.
"I can't think of any other scientists who
deserve it more," said Kenneth Petren, a
former postdoc of Peter Grant and now a
professor at the University of Cincinnati in
Ohio, citing "their long term commitment to
unraveling some very complex problems" in
evolutionary biology.
Following in Darwin's footsteps, the Grants
have spent 35 years studying the finches he
discovered on the Galápagos Islands during his
Beagle tour.
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