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• “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.”

  A Bird's-Eye View of Evolution

• “Such diversity results from Baikal's great age, which gave animals time to evolve and speciate.”

  The Huffington Post: David B. Williams: Restraint and Hope: Lessons From Lake Baikal and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• “They don't think God started things off four billion years ago by "breathing life into" some simple unicellular organism that then began to speciate and evolve to produce all of the subsequent biodiversity of this planet.”

  The Huffington Post: Be the Worm That Turns on the Creationist

• “We know that we can get faster breeding plants in new environments to speciate faster - not just on islands where isolation is marked in thousands of years, but very recent, human brought arrivals like the Chinese Tallow Tree, which has evolved into a distinct new species from Asian ones since Ben Franklin brought in the 1st specimens in.”

  You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you?

• “This belt has played an important role in faunal evolution, as various taxa representative of one biome or the other have dispersed through this zone to speciate on the other side.”

  Zambezian and Mopane woodlands

• “What we haven't done (but little rodents like voles have and dinosaurs once did) is speciate at a prolific rate.”

  Amazing Brain Evolution

• “Here, they have been able to speciate into new forms, partly due to the presence of Tertiary relict plant groups in this area.”

  Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests

• “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.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “If you ever need to speciate sulfur — sulphur, to you — in complex materials, let me know.”

  Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit

• “Isolated populations that have their gene pools cut-off from their parent populations tend to speciate rather quickly.”

  If You Seal It Off, They Will Evolve - The Panda's Thumb

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