The process of speciation allows a single species to diverge into two. Dive into the different versions of this process, including “allopatric speciation” and “sympatric speciation,” and discover how ...

Matías Gómez-Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate Professor Carlos Prada, have published a paper in Nature ...

(Phys.org)—A research team working in Israel has found what might possibly be an example of evolutionary divergence in action – and it's not due to a natural barrier. In their paper published in the ...

Speciation JA Coyne H Allen Orr Sinauer Associates Inc., Massachusetts, USA; 2004. 545 pp., paperback, £34.99 ISBN 0878930892. So effusive was Axel Meyer's appreciation of ‘Speciation’ in ‘Nature’ ...

** I expect you to read: Avise, J.C. 2004. Chapter 7: Speciation and hybridization. In Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution (2nd edn.). Chapman and Hall, New York. Having at least briefly ...

"A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is a repost from April 24 th, 2010.