Speciation can occur rapidly, and is not necessarily slower than extinction, so it is certainly relevant. Considering speciation leads us to a number of questions.

Mechanics of speciation: Model examines factors that contribute to emergence of new species Date: June 27, 2011 Source: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) ...

But speciation is a long process, one that unfolds over centuries or millennia. “What’s going to happen in terms of space travel over the next two, three, four, ...

Evolution: Speciation in the presence of gene flow Date: January 13, 2021 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: Spatial isolation is known to promote speciation -- but ...

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 ...

Eyewitnesses to Speciation. In 1981, Peter and Rosemary Grant, the famous husband-and-wife team of evolutionary biologists at Princeton University, had already been studying Darwin’s finches on the ...

Differentiation of ecogeographic races within species is prevalent in Clarkia, but seems to bear little relation to speciation. Ecogeographical races apparently result from more or less continuous and ...

It is much more likely that species evolve in local populations or metapopulations, mechanism of speciation notwithstanding. Dispersal and colonization from the locus of speciation bind populations of ...