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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
speciate .
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Examples
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As I have mentioned, the two known orang-utan species had already speciated some 400,000 years ago.
On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011
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Danish is great for place names: their language is not only non-phonetic, the written and spoken have actually speciated.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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For fantasy, I'm assuming the reference to Tolkien means this person wants more epics, because otherwise the genre has speciated so wildly since then it would be difficult to make any suggestions.
MIND MELD: New SF/F Recommendations for the Golden Age Reader 2009
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The Mustang, however, had speciated only months before, this time to a smaller, snazzier model.
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The car speciated and grew larger for several years, just like biological organisms.
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About 2 million years ago, Homo habilis left Africa and speciated into Homo georgicus.
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The Faeroe Island house mouse speciated from its ancestral stock within the past 250 years.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Although the three populations appear from the brief descriptions in Box 10. 1 to be geographically isolated from each other, there is a very small amount of mixing between these populations, and so gene flow is probably sufficient for this one species not to have sub-speciated.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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And in each lake these founders then speciated and speciated again, to populate the lake with the hundreds of species that we see today.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The Faeroe Island house mouse speciated from its ancestral stock within the past 250 years.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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