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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
