Tijs Goldschmidt
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| Tijs Goldschmidt Paul-Tijs Goldschmidt |
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| Born | January 30, 1953 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Tijs Goldschmidt (born January 30, 1953 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist.
Goldschmidt lived in Tanzania from 1981 to 1986, where he studied cichlids in Lake Victoria as a researcher from Leiden University. He wrote a dissertation on this and published a book called Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria[1] (original Dutch title: Darwins hofvijver) in which he intertwines scientific and personal experiences. This book has been translated in, amongst others, English, French, German and Japanese.
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- ^ Goldschmidt, Tijs (September 1996). Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262071789.
