Adaptive radiation describes the rapid evolution of a single ancestral lineage into multiple species, each specialised to exploit different ecological niches. This process has generated much of the ...

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Sensory trade-offs between vision and olfaction in the evolution and radiation of primates have long been debated. However, insights have been limited by a lack of sensory gene sequences and ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

The humble rodent “thumb” may not seem like an obvious window into evolution, but its keratinized tip – the unguis (hoof, claw, or nail) – turns out to reveal striking insights into rodent history and ...

Hobbs, Horton Holcombe, Jr. 1988. "Crayfish Distribution, Adaptive Radiation and Evolution." In Freshwater Crayfish: Biology Management and Exploitation. Holdich, D ...