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
"Consequently, the mutations already existed in a common ancestor and are therefore older than the speciation," says Wolf.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
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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