| 单词 | allopatric speciation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasallopatric speciation allopatric speciation n. the evolution of one or more new species from an ancestral species that becomes split into geographically separate populations which diverge genetically over a period of time. ΚΠ 1943 Amer. Naturalist 77 174 There is perhaps an overstress too on the contrast between sympatric and allopatric speciation. 1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field vi. 116 In a tropical area with many islands there is greater opportunity for allopatric speciation to occur. 2005 A. Burdick Out of Eden (2006) xv. 190 The whole understanding of the evolution of biota that we teach in biology is one of allopatric speciation. < as lemmas |
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