Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of new biological species through the process of evolution.
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- noun biology The process by which new distinct
species evolve . - noun chemistry The formation of different (
inorganic )species , for example in a gas.
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- noun the evolution of a biological species
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The actual moment when a "daughter" species can (or will) no longer cross-breed with the population from which it sprang (the definition of speciation) is almost impossible to pinpoint, let alone to witness.
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If I understand front loading at all (please correct any misapprehension), the information necessary to produce speciation is already present from being pre-loaded and waiting for the appropriate moment to kick in.
Change the label 2008
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Alan Fox: If I understand front loading at all (please correct any misapprehension), the information necessary to produce speciation is already present from being pre-loaded and waiting for the appropriate moment to kick in.
Change the label 2008
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Ken Miller, if he really wanted to, could cite 'intelligent cause' to explain speciation – and then cite any and all of the mainstream proposals as mechanism.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Ken Miller, if he really wanted to, could cite 'intelligent cause' to explain speciation – and then cite any and all of the mainstream proposals as mechanism.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Those macroevolutionary mechanisms that are involved in speciation and above fit right in with the theory.
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Although there are differences in the definition of species that complicate a claim of speciation, it has not been any part of my claim that speciation is excluded.
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Although there are differences in the definition of species that complicate a claim of speciation, it has not been any part of my claim that speciation is excluded.
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That means that the same processes which result in speciation also result in the creation of different genera, families, orders, etc. (that is, "higher taxa" than species).
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The importance of recent ice ages in speciation: a failed paradigm.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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