Taken together, these new studies suggest that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. He vastly underestimated the power of natural selection. Its action is neither rare nor slow. It leads to evolution daily and hourly, all around us, and we can watch.

— Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)

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