Speciation
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Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. The biologist Orator F. Cook seems to have been the first to coin the term 'speciation' for the splitting of lineages or "cladogenesis," as opposed to "anagenesis" or "phyletic evolution" occurring within lineages.
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See also
- Extinction
- Species problem
- Heteropatry
- Chronospecies
- Koinophilia
- Assortative mating
- Court Jester Hypothesis
- Speciation (genetic algorithm)
- Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Model
- Sexual reproduction
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