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Fri 04 Apr 2010To be or not to be . . . a blue hamlet fish?
CLOWN FISH like one named Nemo may have put their marine environment on Hollywood’s map, but their coral reef neighbours, the hamlet fish, have now made a significant contribution to research on evolution.
Scientists in Britain and Canada who undertook a study of the colourful Caribbean species have found that different forms of evolution can occur in one place regardless of any physical separation.
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