Background
Tijs Goldschmidt was born on January 30, 1953 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
(Darwin's Dreampond tells the evolutionary story of the ex...)
Darwin's Dreampond tells the evolutionary story of the extraordinary "furu" and the battlefield leading to extinction. Tijs Goldschmidt skillfully blends a masterful discussion of the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution and speciation with a history of Lake Victoria's ecosystem. The science unfolds in the context of the engaging first-person narrative of Goldschmidt's adventures and misadventures as a field researcher. An astute observer and a clear and witty writer, he warmly portrays the colors and textures of the landscapes and the lives of the local people as he interacts with them during the course of his fieldwork.
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1996
Tijs Goldschmidt was born on January 30, 1953 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Tijs Goldschmidt received his a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Leiden University.
Tijs Goldschmidt went to Africa’s Lake Victoria in the 1980s to participate in an environmental impact study. The team was studying Lake Victoria’s plentiful variety of cichlids, the small fish known as furu to the locals. A "flock" of hundreds of cichlid species had evolved in the lake, making it far more prolific a locale for branching evolution than Darwin’s classic Galapagos Islands, where finches had diversified into many species. The known species of cichlid at Lake Victoria numbered one hundred and twenty-three, but the researchers estimated that hundreds more may have remained undiscovered in the lake’s depths. His book "Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria" was his account of a five-year stay in Tanzania in the 1980s.
Tijs abandoned his academic career at the Leiden University in 1993 to dedicate himself fully to writing. He has written a number of books and given many lectures, including the Stephen Jay Gould Lecture in 2003, on the phenomenon of left and right in evolution, and the Huizinga Lecture in 2007, on the role of play in culture. Since 2009, Tijs Goldschmidt is advisor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
(Darwin's Dreampond tells the evolutionary story of the ex...)
1996