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- noun An event that occurs when a symbiotic relationship between two organisms leads to a change creating a new species in the process.
Etymologies
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co- + speciation
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Homo sapiens stepped onto the world stage in a process called cospeciation.
News 2010
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Genetic studies allowing scientists to draw the Plasmodium family tree should be able to settle the issue, but so far, there's no consensus. published yesterday in Current Biology, doesn't quite solve the question of whether cospeciation occurred, but it claims that malaria couldn't possibly have arisen with the advent of agriculture.
News 2010
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