"The Department of Energy also provides support for research and development, with an emphasis in the field of electrical engineering, nuclear engineering, and other disciplines associated with energy research. This support originates back to 1946 with the Manhattan Project and the development of nuclear technology. The Manhattan Project was conducted under management of the U.S. Department of War and the Army Corps of Engineers"--

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research,...