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Allopatry and Sympatry Summary
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Allopatry and sympatry are terms used in biogeography to describe the comparative distributions of populations and species. Species with sympatric distributions overlap in their geographical range to some degree. In contrast, allopatric species do not...
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Allopatric speciation Information
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The evolution of reproductive isolation is generally thought to be an incidental by-product of genetic divergence of other traits, particularly adaptive changes that evolve through natural selection in response to different environmental conditions in...


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The Scientist
Mechanisms of speciation
11/17/2003: 2,191 words, approx. 7 pages
New examples o fsympatric speciation revive some nagging questions | By Leslie Pray "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 isolation when...
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The Scientist
Speciation's Defining Moment
04/11/2005: 1,576 words, approx. 5 pages
Genetics and genomics enliven an old controversy on reinforcement Evolutionary biologists, both theoreticians and empiricists, have argued for decades about the relative merits of two speciation scenarios: allopatry and sympatry. The multifaceted debate bristles with any number of sharply contested points, but one...
 


 

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