Media:To be or not to be . . . a blue hamlet fish?

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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.

The finding, published yesterday in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography , significantly improves understanding of “speciation” as in the evolutionary method by which new species arise...