Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt: Used

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Book Title
Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria
Publication Date
1996-09-12
Pages
274
ISBN
9780262071789
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262071789
ISBN-13
9780262071789
eBay Product ID (ePID)
656433

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Darwin's Dreampond : Drama in Lake Victoria
Subject
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Life Sciences / Evolution, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Science
Author
Tijs Goldschmidt
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-024478
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 Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
577.6/3
Synopsis
Dazzling 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 Number
QH195.V5G6413 1996

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