Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Rapid Speciation

From 2000: "Now new research, reported today in the journal Science, describes a run of salmon that colonized a river and a lake beach, and evolved partial reproductive isolation in fewer than 13 generations. Natural selection, it appears, can spur the emergence of new species far faster than expected."

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: High-Speed Speciation

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