The Scientist, November 17th, 2003
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 the external barriers break down."
-Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species, 1942(1)
The duration of a cell cycle lasts anywhere from one hour to one day; Drosophila melanogaster lives for a couple of weeks. But the origin of a species, otherwise known as speciation, takes thousands, mayb...
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