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  • verb Present participle of speciate.

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Examples

  • Professor Dalke had offered in lecture that "everyone has a predecessor" regardless if the author believed it or not Is the fictional literary community simply varying or "speciating" at a slower rate?

    Serendip's Exchange - Tara Raju 2009

  • And it was almost certainly the geographical isolation permitted by the spaced-out pattern of the islands that made possible the initial separation between the ancestral land iguanas and the newly speciating marine iguanas.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • And it was almost certainly the geographical isolation permitted by the spaced-out pattern of the islands that made possible the initial separation between the ancestral land iguanas and the newly speciating marine iguanas.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • If they were too common – if, say, iguanas drifted from Guadeloupe to Anguilla every year – the incipiently speciating population on Anguilla would be continually swamped by incoming gene flow and therefore could not diverge from the Guadeloupe population.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • If they were too common – if, say, iguanas drifted from Guadeloupe to Anguilla every year – the incipiently speciating population on Anguilla would be continually swamped by incoming gene flow and therefore could not diverge from the Guadeloupe population.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • This means that any group that has been sitting around and speciating in its niche for 64 million years will have experienced a large number of extinctions, probably 10 times or more extinct species than there are living species.

    Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Here's a fascinating Usenet thread discussing the presentation -- are fans speciating?

    Boing Boing: November 18, 2001 - November 24, 2001 Archives 2001

  • In his view, the hosts on which lice were speciating during the Cretaceous could have been a different branch of the mammalian family tree, all of whose species are extinct.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • "They tend to start speciating into different groups."

    innovations-report 2010

  • "They tend to start speciating into different groups."

    innovations-report 2010

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