On November 25, 2015, Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University, gave a special lecture at Konkuk University (KU) at the invitation of the Division of Specialized Studies within the College of Bioscience & Biotechnology. The Grants were visiting Korea to attend the christening ceremony for a road named after Charles Darwin and them at the National Institute of Ecology.
The Grants are noted for researching Darwin’s finches on the Galapagos Islands for four decades. Their research demonstrating that the birds with best-suited beaks for the changing environment survive and pass along the successful adaptation through natural selection is well-documented in text books used by KU students for the Genetics and Principles of Bioscience classes. During the special lecture, the Grants discussed adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches.