The diversity of species of plants and animals is the net result of the origin of new species by the splitting of existing lineages (speciation) and the loss of

Bringing together the viewpoints of leading ecologists concerned with the processes that generate patterns of diversity, and evolutionary biologists who focus o

Biodiversity.

The origin of species, or speciation, the "mystery of mysteries", as Charles Darwin called it, is an issue at the very heart of evolutionary biology, critical t

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