Fish can change their teeth quickly, which speeds up their evolution. Cichlids in African lakes show the fastest ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...

For certain fishes, evolution is easy. After tracking the evolution of teeth in cichlid fishes from Africa, a team of researchers has found that these fishes have developed the ability to evolve ...

African Cichlidae, also known as cichlids, the most diverse and textbook example of species diversification to fill different niches (a phenomenon known as adaptive radiation), were dominated by ...

Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and diversity of fish. The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food ...