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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.
Over the last two decades, the study of speciation has expanded from a modest backwater of evolutionary biology into a large and vigorous discipline. Thus, the literature on speciation, as well as the number of researchers and students working…
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I used to wonder: where did Earth's amazing variety of animal and plant species come from, and how do new species arise?
The co-authors gave me a fascinating and thorough explanation from diverse sources, from populations of fruit flies in laboratories to wild creatures on geographically isolated islands. The latter I find especially fascinating—with the evidence from Hawaii, New Zealand, Madagascar, and other lands where a richness of unusual species live, thanks to evolution.
From Laurence's list on that explain the fascinating process of evolution.
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