Darwin's Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt

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Darwin's Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt

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Darwin's Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt

Darwin's Dreampond tells the evolutionary story of the extraordinary furu and the battlefield leading to extinction. Tijs Goldschmidt skillfully blends a masterful discussion of the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution and speciation with a history of Lake Victoria's ecosystem. The science unfolds in the context of the engaging first-person narrative of Goldschmidt's adventures and misadventures as a field researcher. An astute observer and a clear and witty writer, he warmly portrays the colors and textures of the landscapes and the lives of the local people as he interacts with them during the course of his fieldwork.

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Trained in animal ecology and evolutionary biology, TIJS GOLDSCHMIDT abandoned his academic career at Leiden University in 1993 to dedicate himself fully to writing. Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria (1996, The MIT Press) was his first book published in English, an account of a five-year stay in Tanzania in the 1980s, during which he studied the now-renowned cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria. The book was subsequently translated into numerous languages and received several awards in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2000, Goldschmidt was awarded the most prestigious Dutch prize for essay writing, the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize, for his book Oversprongen (Crossovers). He has since written a number of other books and given many lectures, including the Stephen Jay Gould Lecture in 2003, on the phenomenon of left and right in evolution, and the Huizinga Lecture in 2007, on How to Fake Faking, about the role of play in culture. Goldschmidt lives in Amsterdam.

SHERRY MACDONALD's translations from the Dutch for American publishers include Darwin's Dreampond (The MIT Press 1996) by Tijs Goldschmidt and Tonguecat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003) by Peter Verhelst.

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ISBN 13 9780262571210
ISBN 10 0262571218
Title Darwin's Dreampond
Author Tijs Goldschmidt
Series Darwin's Dreampond
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The Mit Press
Year published 1998-03-02
Number of pages 280
Prizes Short-listed for BP Natural World Book Prize 1997
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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