How do new species form? Like most areas of Evolutionary Biology, research related to the formation of new species - 'speciation ' - is rich in historical and current debate. Here, we review both ...

A paper published by URI researchers reveals key mechanisms in speciation in corals. Critically threatened by climate change, a better understanding of coral biology will help efforts to conserve and ...

Within-species variance in corticosterone levels showed close to zero repeatability, thus it is highly unlikely that this is a species-specific trait that influences diversification rates. These ...

de Queiroz, Kevin. 1998. "The General Lineage Concept of Species, Species Criteria, and the Process of Speciation." In Endless Forms: Species and Speciation. 57–75. Oxford University Press.

A new study published by researchers at London's Natural History Museum and Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven has reinforced the claim that Neanderthals and modern-day humans (Homo sapiens) must be ...

Researchers observed beetles across 200 generations and noted that evolution was amped up when strong sexual selection was ...

Sexual isolation, a reproductive barrier, can prevent interbreeding between diverging populations or species. Sexual isolation can have a clear genetic basis; however, it may also result from learned ...

The evolutionary biologist Jochen Wolf was working from home when we first spoke, in April, 2020. Germany was under lockdown, and his lab, at Ludwig Maximilian University, in Munich, had been closed ...

"Supplement to The Auk"--Cover. Differentiation and speciation without extended isolation appear to be common among migratory animals. Historical oversight of this is probably due to temporal ...

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