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Evolution: Dreampond revisited

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A once-threatened population of African fish is now providing a view of evolution in action. Laura Spinney asks what Lake Victoria cichlids have revealed about speciation.

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  1. Laura Spinney is a freelance writer based in Lausanne, Switzerland.,

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Spinney, L. Evolution: Dreampond revisited. Nature 466, 174–175 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466174a

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