Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History McKinnon Jeffrey
Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History McKinnon Jeffrey The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes--some millions of years old--and the remarkable insights the lakes are…
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Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History McKinnon Jeffrey
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes--some millions of years old--and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity.Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continent but Antarctica: Baikal, Tanganyika, Victoria, Titicaca, and Biwa, to name a few. In Our Ancient Lakes, Jeffrey McKinnon introduces the remarkable living diversity of these aquatic bodies to the general reader and explains the surprising, often controversial, findings that the study of their faunas is yielding about the formation and persistence of Often these lakes are filled with a diversity of fish, crustaceans, snails, and other creatures found nowhere else in the world.
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