How to Use speciation in a Sentence

speciation

noun

• Wolf has come to think that this might be the mechanism of their speciation.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Among the types of speciation that do, the most important is called allopatric.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
• The news comes after speciation on social media that the drink had been removed from the menu.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• The result, in the first half of the book, is a dense but lucid guide to the history and biology of speciation on Earth.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• The sequences of only one or a few genes cannot reveal the full history of speciation in oaks.
  — Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• And the idea of the potential of a child — that spoke to me of a moment of speciation and that opened up themes that were very interesting and avenues of story.
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• On Daphne, the conditions may have been just right for hybrid speciation.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Instead, Janke said, at least some of the whale speciation has been driven by personal taste.
  — Author: Karen Weintraub, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• The oak genome is thus a mosaic shaped by speciation and hybridization.
  — Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• That suggests females prefer mates of one plumage and song or another; their choices may have sent the birds down speciation’s track.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The breakneck pace of that speciation event turned heads both in the scientific community and in the media.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
• Some experts think that even today hybrid speciation may be far from rare.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• In the other model, differences in species emerge in stages as a lineage cracks open opportunities available to it, which means that the rate of speciation can both rise and fall over time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• Others, like Tautz and Mallet, decided to focus on the speciation process.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• And, not surprisingly, the animals more likely to evolve toxic defenses than to lose them, which makes sense for a trait that spurs speciation.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2015
• But other researchers say the research appears to show how sympatric speciation happens—and in this case, happened so quickly.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• By looking at the statistics of extinction and speciation events, which happen when new dinosaurs evolve, researchers found signs of decline for many species.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• The work showed that a single mutation in a supergene was sufficient to produce the full suite of changes observed in the obligate parasites, even before the ants were split by speciation.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
• There were short spikes of speciation interspersed by longer periods of stasis.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• In one, rapid diversification in some aspect of body morphology produces a burst of new species at first, and then speciation slows as the available niches fill up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• The lab is testing a theory discussed in recent years that postulates such adaptation to new environments drives the process of speciation.
  — Cristela Guerra, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• In other sections Wright touches upon what would one day become mutational meltdown, as well as the nature of speciation.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2010
• But the issue remains contentious: Hybridization has been definitively shown to cause widespread speciation only in plants.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
• On the other hand, Bravo says places with low levels of species diversity and high rates of speciation may have so few species because their extreme, changeable environments keep killing off the newcomers.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
• But later versions began to include speciation, which depends on an island’s size rather than its isolation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
• At other times, extinction crises cut back life on Earth, and speciation did not immediately follow.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2021
• And as water froze into glaciers, sea levels dropped, isolating shallow seas and creating niches for speciation.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 18 Sep. 2019
• By pinpointing many such transfers, then, scientists can sort out the relative order of speciation involved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018
• Historically, speciation boosted the number of species more quickly than migration did, hence the steeper slope.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
• Fitzpatrick says scientists have been talking about speciation without isolation since the 1970s, but for a while there biologists struggled to find many examples out there in nature.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2015

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024