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 ...

Dijkstra et al, Oxidative stress in the brain is regulated by social status in a highly social cichlid fish, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1477984 ...

It’s not what you do, it’s how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...

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 ...