Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, the cichlids (small, perch-like fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos and Hawaii's Honeycreepers, have been geographically islolated long enough to undergo unusually broad speciation. In engaging, first-person narrative, Goldschmidt tells the evolutionary story of these extraordinary "furu" and the battlefield leading to their extinction. 30 illustrations.
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Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, the cichlids (small, perch-like fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos and Hawaii's Honeycreepers, have been geographically islolated long enough to undergo unusually broad speciation. In engaging, first-person narrative, Goldschmidt tells the evolutionary story of these extraordinary "furu" and the battlefield leading to their extinction. 30 illustrations.
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