speciation
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Mr. Solomon estimates that significant steps toward speciation could arise within five to 10 generations.
"And the trend is clear - the mass extinction pulses led directly to increased speciation after several millions of years."
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Exactly why reduced cuticle investment promotes speciation is still unclear.
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"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."
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"The Cambrian period also had a massive speciation event, but the new models allow us to rule out oxygen and focus on other things that may have driven evolution during that time."
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