Like most areas of Evolutionary Biology, research related to the formation of new species - 'speciation ' - is rich in historical and current debate. Here, we review both early and modern views on ...

Before jumping into the specifics of speciation, it is beneficial to first understand the biological definition of a species. A species is a group of organisms whose members share similar traits, but ...

This unique bird raised an intriguing question: can hybrids give rise to a perfectly valid species? Hybrid speciation is quite rare in animals, but it does occur naturally. In this scenario ...

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Arecently published phylogeny of Hawaiian cricket species adds to the ongoing debate about the importance of sexual selection in speciation. The phylogeny implies that the genus has speciated ...

Clues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation. To biologists eager to understand how one species can split into two, the apple ...

That lineage may represent the very fast initiation of speciation via hybridization of species, rather than the slower accumulation of adaptations, study co-author Leif Andersson, a geneticist at ...

The biological equivalent is "allopatric speciation," an evolutionary process in which one species divides into two because the original homogenous population has become separated and both groups ...

Still, there's reason to believe that our impact on speciation is significant. In a 2015 paper, biologist Chris Thomas reported that over the last 300 years, more new plant species, primarily ...