Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Author: Eleonora Trajano

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1439840482

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In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism's phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general. For him, the explanation was a straightforward Lamarc