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Hello hello, @nareng.bsky.social et al. has a new paper on adaptive radiation of fossils of Lake Victoria’s haplochromine cichlid fish.

Cool findings on diversification, how generalist results in specialist and how generalist persist in time!

Please have read

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil evidence for trait diversification in an adaptive radiation - Scientific Reports
Adaptive radiation is an important process for the origin of functional and ecological biodiversity. Understanding how, when, and why adaptive radiations occur is a long-standing interest in evolution...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Using fish teeth fossils from lake sediments, we found the haplochromine cichlids diversified quite rapidly and the entire food web evolved within just the first three millennia after the formation of modern Lake Victoria (which started refilling ~ 17k years ago). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil evidence for trait diversification in an adaptive radiation - Scientific Reports
Adaptive radiation is an important process for the origin of functional and ecological biodiversity. Understanding how, when, and why adaptive radiations occur is a long-standing interest in evolution...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus
Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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My home girl Dr Nare Ngoepe has a news and reviews article in Nature!

It's all about why some species are more likely to diversify than others!!!

it's a short informative read!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Evolutionary flexibility to gain or lose tooth complexity sparks fish diversification
Evolutionary insights about how ray-finned fishes diversified.
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM