speciation

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Or as Yi-Kai Tea, a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney who studies the evolution and speciation of fishes, put it, “quite literally the fish equivalent of dog domestication.”

From New York Times

The result, in the first half of the book, is a dense but lucid guide to the history and biology of speciation on Earth.

From Washington Post

“This study is one of surprisingly few that compellingly document sympatric speciation caught in the act” in vertebrates, says Martha Muñoz, an evolutionary biologist at Yale University who was not involved with the work.

From Science Magazine

At other times, extinction crises cut back life on Earth, and speciation did not immediately follow.

From Scientific American

Think of them as the happy little shrubs of speciation.

From New York Times