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

The work also provides new insights into how climate change has influenced baobab distribution and speciation patterns over millions of years'.

From Science Daily • May 15, 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

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

What impetus drove the descent of, say, thirteen variants of finches down the fierce rivulets of speciation?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee