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Science 23 August 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5278, pp. 1091 - 1093
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5278.1091
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Reports
Late Pleistocene Desiccation of Lake Victoria and Rapid Evolution
of Cichlid Fishes
Thomas C. Johnson,
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Christopher A. Scholz,
Michael R. Talbot,
Kerry Kelts,
R. D. Ricketts,
Gideon Ngobi,
Kristina Beuning,
Immacculate Ssemmanda,
J. W. McGill
Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and harbors more than
300 endemic species of haplochromine cichlid fish. Seismic reflection
profiles and piston cores show that the lake not only was at a low
stand but dried up completely during the Late Pleistocene, before
12,400 carbon-14 years before the present. These results imply that the
rate of speciation of cichlid fish in this tropical lake has been
extremely rapid.
T. C. Johnson and R. D. Ricketts, Large Lakes Observatory,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812, USA.
C. A. Scholz, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
M. R. Talbot, Geological Institute, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen,
Norway.
K. Kelts, G. Ngobi, K. Beuning, Limnological Research Center,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
I. Ssemmanda, Department of Geology, Makerere University, Post Office
Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
J. W. McGill, Embangweni Hospital, Post Office Box 7, Embangweni,
Malawi.
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To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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