Fish, including cichlids, have either “simple” teeth, basically cone-shaped pegs, or “complex” teeth with multiple cusps that can adapt to feed on different prey. Peoples spent two years ...

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He found that teeth evolved from simple to complex around 86 times across all fish species and that these transitions were common in African cichlids, which adapted with a certain ease of evolution.