speciation

Noun

Meaning

the evolution of a biological species

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

evolution categorisation phylogenesis anthropogenesis

Antonyms

despeciation

Hypernyms

evolution phylogeny phylogenesis organic evolution

Phrases with the word

adaptive speciation allopatric speciation evolutionary speciation

Examples

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. Stephen Jay Gould

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity. Ernst Mayr

Owning your own racing ship wasn't even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh's pyramid with a reaction drive. Daniel Abraham

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange. Peter R. Grant

Adaptive speciation quickly gave rise to many diverse groups of plants, and, at the same time, corresponding speciation occurred in certain insect groups. Source: Internet

Change in Pleistocene populations did not involve speciation (the splitting of one species into two): all this time, the geographically distinct populations maintained small amounts of gene flow. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

specialty store specialty storehouse speciate speciation event speciational specicide