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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
speciate .
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Examples
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Then, when the environment changes, the end members on the advantageous side of the now-wide genetic spectrum are strongly selected for and the population "speciates" very, very quickly.
Pharyngula 2009
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Far from being the fixed point in a turning world, every religion evolves and, if it persists long enough, speciates.
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Far from being the fixed point in a turning world, every religion evolves and, if it persists long enough, speciates.
Clay Farris Naff: Bible Vs. Quran: The Evolution Of Violence In Religion 2010
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Christianity is an evolving meme which speciates to occupy every niche available to it in human minds.
Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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