Reproductive isolation: Natural selection at work
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Reproductive isolation: Natural selection at work
The crucial step in the separation of two populations of a sexually reproducing species into two new species — speciation — is the acquisition of reproductive isolation between them. Such isolation ensures that they can evolve independently of each other, and so end up with radically different genotypes and phenotypes. This causes the biological world to be divided up into the discrete taxonomi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00280-3