speciation
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"We have been studying the process of speciation for a long time," said Svardal.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
Mr. Solomon estimates that significant steps toward speciation could arise within five to 10 generations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Exactly why reduced cuticle investment promotes speciation is still unclear.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025
Now, research shows for the first time that competition was fundamental to "speciation" -- the rate at which new species emerge -- across five million years of hominin evolution.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
The separation of the speakers by migrations had effects on language comparable to the speciation observed by Darwin on various islands of Galapagos.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing speciation
Evolutionary Biology - Natural Selection - Middle School
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Evolutionary Biology - Natural Selection - High School
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Biodiversity and Humans - Middle School and High School
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