Cichlid fish genome helps tell story of adaptive evolution
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Roughly 40 million years ago, a handful of species of fish from the Nile River went into three lakes in Africa and experienced an unusual flurry of evolution. In one of these lakes as many as 500 new species emerged in fewer than 100,000 years.