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 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."

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2024

"Consequently, the mutations already existed in a common ancestor and are therefore older than the speciation," says Wolf.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

"Because of the rate at which it mutates, we were able to demonstrate why DXZ4 is probably linked to speciation," Murphy said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

This mechanism of speciation was not just conjecture; Dobzhansky could demonstrate it experimentally.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee