Lurking in the rivers of Botswana are the remnants of a diverse flock of cichlid fishes, whose origins can be traced to a lake that vanished more than 2,000 years ago.
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Kocher, T. Ghost of speciation past. Nature 435, 29–30 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435029a
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