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The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

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Lyall Watson
Age: 69 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 12
Died: 2008
Died: June 25
Anthropologist
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Biologist
Botanist
Zoologist
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Malcolm Lyall-Watson
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