Abundant evidence supports a role for sexual selection in the evolution of reproductive isolation, and it is thus unsurprising that much attention has been given, both conceptually and empirically, to ...

Phylogenetic trees often depart from the expectations of stochastic models, exhibiting imbalance in diversification among lineages and slowdowns in the rate of lineage accumulation through time. Such ...

Spatial isolation is known to promote speciation - but researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now shown that, at least in yeast, the opposite is also true. New ecological ...

Clues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation. To biologists eager to understand how one species can split into two, the apple ...

A paper published by URI researchers reveals key mechanisms in speciation in corals. Critically threatened by climate change, a better understanding of coral biology will help efforts to conserve and ...

Professor Emeritus Eviatar Nevo, the founder and director of the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa in Israel, knows a thing or two about evolutionary biology, as his thousands of ...