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Darwin's Dreampond : Drama in Lake Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt (1996, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262071789

ISBN-139780262071789

eBay Product ID (ePID)656433

Product Key Features

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDarwin's Dreampond : Drama in Lake Victoria

SubjectEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Life Sciences / Evolution, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Science

AuthorTijs Goldschmidt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight20.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-024478

Reviews"Tijs Goldschmidt has trapped a ghost image in this solid and highly perceptive work - the glorious, haunting, and indecipherable complexity of biological life. Goldschmidt also shows us, however, that the human desire both to understand and to exploit such life is equally thought-provoking. Thus does Darwin's Dreampondbecome a first rate account of a modern scientist's field work among the cychlids and the Sukuma people of Lake Victoria." -Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal577.6/3

SynopsisDazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes and colours, the cichlids (small perch-like 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 species flock - closely related species that have descended from a common ancestor and radiated, or fanned, into different specializations - that is one of the most spectacular in the world, interesting anatomists, ecologists, ethologists and evolutionary biologists alike. The process of speciation was still under way until just recently, when the introduction of the large, predatory Nile perch so disrupted the Lake's intricate ecosystem that the glorious spectrum of cichlids has almost vanished.

LC Classification NumberQH195.V5G6413 1996