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- v. Present participle of speciate.
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Examples
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here's a fascinating Usenet thread discussing the presentation -- are fans speciating?
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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.
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"They tend to start speciating into different groups."
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And, most importantly, not speciating very often, since easy speciation requires isolation!
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So, what exactly prevents lions and tigers from speciating?
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We examined how two of these mechanisms, changes in gene expression and changes in gene coding sequence, have generated an incredibly diverse set of visual systems in rapidly speciating African cichlids.
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