It's a bit like a character in a movie going off and having adventures that change him so drastically that when he returns, the folks in his hometown no longer recognize the way he looks and behaves.

The process of speciation allows a single species to diverge into two. Dive into the different versions of this process, including “allopatric speciation” and “sympatric speciation,” and discover how ...

Reinforcement is a controversial mechanism of speciation in which reproductive isolation is strengthened in response to maladaptive hybridisation. In a recent paper published in Nature, Hoskin et al ...

A genetic study of island lizards shows that even those that have been geographically isolated for many millions of years have not evolved into separate species as predicted by conventional ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. If reinforcement is operating in this system, we can make two predictions about the impact of call divergence on mate choice.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is a repost from April 24 th, 2010.

A new study conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai published in NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, has shed light on the process of speciation, ...