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THE BIOLOGY OF SPECIATION

    Biology

    Evolution; international journal of organic…

  • 2010

It is argued that natural selection is a ubiquitous part of speciation, and given the many ways in which stochastic and deterministic factors may interact during divergence, it is questioned whether the ecological speciation concept is useful.

Species Concepts and Speciation Analysis

A new mechanistic taxonomy of speciation is needed before population genetics, which deals with evolutionary mechanisms, can be properly integrated with speciation theory; that is, the various modes of Speciation should be characterized according to the various forces and genetic mechanisms that underly the evolution of isolating barriers.

UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

This review is a major review of speciation studies and discusses some of the major topics, including sympatric speciation, which gets considerable attention, and all the contributors on this subject take a decidedly favorable stance.