Darwin's dreampond : drama in Lake Victoria /

Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, the cichlids (small perchlike fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii's honeycreepers, have been geographically isolated long enough to undergo unusually broad speciation. These small fish form a spec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldschmidt, Tijs
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Lake ecology > Victoria, Lake.
Cichlids > Evolution > Victoria, Lake.
Écologie des lacs > Victoria, Lac.
Cichlidés > Évolution > Victoria, Lac.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Cichlids > Evolution.
Lake ecology.
Ecologia.
Victoria, Lake.
Victoria, Lac.
Africa > Lake Victoria.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shock
  • Everything but an eye-biter: a branching out of forms
  • Maji moto: furu forebears
  • Blister: evolution through natural selection
  • Kiss on the hand: the origin of species
  • Dowry: sexual selections and gender-related differences
  • Niche: the origin of structure in biotic communities
  • Battlefield: extinction
  • Savior: an ecosystem under stress
  • Oracle.

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