Life of David Lack

Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack''s 1947 classic, Darwin''s Finches. Lack''s pioneering conclusions in Darwin''s Finches mark the beginni...