(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 ...

Scientists discover at least 11 examples of sympatric speciation on Lord Howe Island. How does a single species divide into two new species? For decades, the prevailing idea among evolutionary ...

Mate choice, competition, and the variety of resources available are the key factors influencing how a species evolves into separate species, according to a new mathematical model that integrates all ...

** 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 ...

One of the world's best examples of sympatric speciation, when two species from a single ancestor form in the absence of a geographical barrier, has been found among the swaying palm trees on ...

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 ...

Or is so-called sympatric speciation also possible -- the evolutionary divergence of a population within the same geographical area? Only few examples of sympatric speciation are known worldwide, and ...

Cichlid fishes exhibit some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive radiation, diversifying into dozens of species within individual lakes over remarkably short time frames. Sympatric ...

German researcher Christian Rabeling was digging up ant colonies on a college campus in Brazil when he found something unexpected—certain ants appeared smaller and shinier and had wings. Rabeling soon ...

The Midas cichlid fish from the crater lakes of Nicaragua are one of the the best known examples for sympatric speciation. They evolved from a source population into a variety of independent species ...

A new study conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai published in NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, has shed light on the process of speciation, ...

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’ ...