Sympatric speciation
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title:
Sympatric speciation
text:
In evolutionary biology, sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region. In evolutionary biology and biogeography, sympatric and sympatry are terms referring to organisms whose ranges overlap so that they occur together at least in some places. If these organisms are closely related, such a distribution may be the result of sympatric speciation. Etymologically, sympatry is derived from Greek συν
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Evolution of a new species from an ancestor in the same location
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympatric_speciation
date created:
2004-02-25T04:31:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T14:02:32Z
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