Mechanisms of Speciation New examples of sympatric speciation revive some nagging questions | By Leslie Pray "A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its ...

A new study reports that speciation and rapid evolution of some animals is being caused, through various means, by humans.

Color Pattern Spurs Speciation In Tropical Fish Date: June 14, 2007 Source: McGill University Summary: A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research ...

Among our Indian sample of sister-species pairs, we found examples showing a favourable fit to each of the four speciation models: dispersal model (twenty-five examples), vicariance model (eleven), ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have ...

Hybrid speciation refers to the establishment of novel hybrid genotypes that are reproductively isolated from their parental species and genetically stabilized. Most frequently, reproductive isolation ...

Butterfly Speciation Event Recreated Date: June 16, 2006 Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Summary: New evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in animals is presented in the June ...

While Madagascar is famous for its incredible diversity of plants and animals, a new study suggests that the island’s rate of speciation has slowed to a crawl. The research, published last week ...