speciation
- noun
- /ˌspiːʃiˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- If this mechanism actually leads to speciation, is it also unique to house mice?
- sympatric speciation
- allopatric speciation
- speciation event
And therefore there is selection for changes in characters and over time that will lead to speciation and therefore evolution.
- And therefore there is selection for changes in characters and over time that will lead to speciation and therefore evolution.
Examples
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Lastly, we discuss new approaches that can be leveraged in Drosophila to enhance our understanding of speciation and reproductive isolation.
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Drosophila has contributed a vast amount of empirical data to the study of speciation and inspired many theoretical studies.
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How, exactly, does speciation occur in the case of simple language forms?
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And so the major part of speciation of new species come after a mass extinction.
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And therefore there is selection for changes in characters and over time that will lead to speciation and therefore evolution.
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There has been a resurgence of productive and important work on species and speciation in recent years.
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Future research programs in Drosophila have high potential to answer long-standing questions in speciation.
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Our most promising insight centered upon speciation, the origin of new and distinct biological populations.
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In many cases, the process of speciation is accompanied by the gradual evolution of reproductive isolation.
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The gradual separation of populations can lead to speciation and the emergence of new species.
Synonyms
One species splits into two or more new species
How Divergent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speciation comes from the word species meaning 'kind' or 'type' and the ending -ation meaning 'a process', so speciation is the process of making new species from existing ones.