Jeffrey Mckinnon Jeffrey McKinnon Our Ancient Lakes (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Our Ancient LakesCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: A Natural HistoryISBN-10: 0262047853EAN: 9780262047852ISBN: 9780262047852Publisher: MIT PressRelease Date: 10/17/2023Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 211mmItem Length: 141mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 425gAuthor: Jeffrey Mckinnon, Jeffrey McKinnonGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Home Garden & PetsDescription: 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. Often these lakes are filled with a diversity of fish, crustaceans, snails, and other creatures found nowhere else in the world. 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 species. The first single-authored volume to synthesize studies of ancient lakes, Our Ancient Lakes provides an overview of the lakes and their distinctive geological origins; accounts of the evolutionary processes that have generated the incredible diversity found in the lakes and produced some of the fastest speciation rates known for vertebrates; the surprisingly important role of interspecies mating in the most rapid diversifications; the uniquely complete records of the creatures that inhabited the lakes, which are being extracted from deep lake sediments; the prospects for the lakes as we tumble into the Anthropocene; and much more.Shining a light on a class of biodiversity hot spot that is equivalent to coral reefs in the ocean or tropical rainforests on land, Our Ancient Lakes chronicles in a refreshingly personal and accessible way the often singular wonders of these venerable water bodies.The MIT Press gratefully acknowledges Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.Type: EvolutionRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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