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Cichlids are an example of what Mary Jane West-Eberhard calls a “multidirectional radiation” – that is an adaptive radiation that produces a large amount of diversity and specialization of related forms. There are at least 1,500 species of haplochromine cichlids. Within Lake Victoria there are at least 120 species that display a wide variety of [...]
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Over at UD Pav has totally misunderstood a paper by the Grants on the Evolution of Character Displacement in Darwin’s Finches. Having just reviewed a book by the Grants I was looking forward to ripping into some creationist mumbo jumbo. Alas, it is not to be.
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How and Why Species Multiply:The Radiation of Darwin’s Finches is the second volume in the Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology and fully earns its place in that series.
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I am almost finished reading Peter Grant’s “Ecology and Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”. As is well known, the finches on the Galapagos Islands provided Darwin with one of the final pieces in the puzzle of the origin of species and are considered a model demonstration of the effects of natural selection. Grant’s book provides a [...]
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