The Galápagos is famous for fueling this type of speciation, due to the fact that its islands are all so secluded from one another. In fact, scattered across this archipelago are around 18 separate ...

Hybrid speciation is quite rare in animals, ... When Dr. Masello, Professor Moodley and their collaborators measured the dimensions of the bills for all six of the Pachyptila species, ...

Often this type of speciation occurs in three steps. First, the populations become physically separated, often by a long, slow geological process like an uplift of land, the movement of a glacier ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized 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 ...

"Across all species … the greater the selection pressure and the less gene flow, the more likely you're going to get speciation," he said. Originally published on Live Science. TOPICS ...

"Species formation generally takes place over huge timescales and it's very difficult ... (2017, February 17). Speciation is not all about good looks: For stick insects, the right partner should ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation—which holds that new species emerge in ...