Speciation has been unusually fast among the cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria. An unexpectedly distant ancestor, which perhaps already had a predisposition for rapid speciation, may have seeded this 'species flock'.
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Kocher, T. Fractious phylogenies. Nature 423, 489–491 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423489a
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