The Birds of Northern Melanesia (written with Jared Diamond) provides a detailed picture of one of Mayr's principal fields of research ” how birds develop into different species ( 'speciate') on island archipelagos. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird's-Eye View of Evolution] Reference
If you ever need to speciate sulfur — sulphur, to you — in complex materials, let me know. From Wordnik.com. [Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit] Reference
Such diversity results from Baikal's great age, which gave animals time to evolve and speciate. From Wordnik.com. [David B. Williams: Restraint and Hope: Lessons From Lake Baikal and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] Reference
Isolated populations that have their gene pools cut-off from their parent populations tend to speciate rather quickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: May 2006 Archives] Reference
Dr. Mallet's seminar was about the speciation processes in Heliconius butterflies of South America and whether or not these butterflies speciate in allopatry or sympatry. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
There's a picture here that shows a 'tree of life' versus a 'tree of machines', where the tree of life only has branches that split species never merge, only speciate and the second has branches that curve around and rejoin with other branches for systems where different components were lifted out of one device and dropped into another. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-22] Reference
Or did some of them speciate from species that speciated from the original two?. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Once the environment changes, your equillibrium is punctuated and you speciate very quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Only species speciate, but their multiplication resembles that which goes on at lower levels. From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
The finding implies that their hosts, both mammals and birds, had also begun to flourish and speciate before the reign of the dinosaurs was over. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
That suggests that polar bears began to speciate on the order of ~100,000 years ago, and that their speciation occurred within about 10-30,000 years. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]
"What we've shown is that speciation is about happy accidents - rare events that happen in the environment that cause a species to speciate," says Pagel. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
If beneficial mutation A exists at one place in the population, and equally beneficial mutation B exists at another, it seems to me that so long as the population doesn't speciate. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They didn't speciate, but if a noticable and measurable morphological change can occur in less than 20 years, I think it is reasonable to say speciation could occur relatively quickly, IF SELECTION WAS STRONG ENOUGH. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
In the case of snails, the most sedentary group they investigated, they found they could speciate in very small areas indeed, forming new species even within the smallest island they looked at, Nihoa, which at roughly 200 acres is just a quarter the size of Central Park in New York. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Once they become adults, they might offer such a different experience of the material that they will speciate into an entirely different storytelling animal? as has happened, for example, with movies. ". From Wordnik.com. [The iPhone apps throwing light on best-selling books] Reference
I get tickled by the “theory” that ‘kind’ means ‘genus’ or ‘family’ because, as is stated, they would have to speciate at an extremely high rate – about a couple times a day – to get to today’s diversity. From Wordnik.com. [Pity the poor inverts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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