speciation

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Mr. Solomon estimates that significant steps toward speciation could arise within five to 10 generations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

"These repeated incursions into freshwater at the early divergence stage likely accelerated speciation, and are key factors in explaining the extraordinary hyper-diversity of otophysans in modern freshwater faunas."

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

The authors say the shift in migratory behavior is what drove speciation, though there's no way to tell whether migratory behavior was gained by one species or lost by the other.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

But a study of fossils from East Africa’s Lake Victoria shows that it takes more than arriving early to win the speciation race.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

This mechanism of speciation was not just conjecture; Dobzhansky could demonstrate it experimentally.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee