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speciation

Word definitions for speciation in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Speciation may refer to: Speciation (biology) , evolutionary process by which new biological species arise Speciation (chemistry) , distribution of chemical elements

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the evolution of a biological species

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) The process by which new distinct species evolve. 2 (context chemistry English) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1906; see species + -ation . The verb speciate is a back-formation attested by 1961.

Usage examples of speciation.

As for me, I am grateful for differentiation and speciation, but I cannot feel as separate an entity as I did a few years ago, before I was told these things, nor, I should think, can anyone else.

If they follow our protocol, it will be anaerobic life at first, then photosynthesis and the first exhalation of oxygen, then respiring life and the great burst of variation, then speciation, and, finally, some kind of consciousness.

The separation of the speakers by migrations had effects on language comparable to the speciation observed by Darwin on various islands of Galapagos.

The size of evolutionary steps, the exact scenario for speciation, is still debated.

No speciation, all working from one genetic blueprint, making a few hundred different forms.

Earth, they suspected the evolution of humanity had been the consequence of a number of speciation steps.

The pithecine form had proved effective and enduring, and there had been a great churning of speciation events, a radiation of ape people.

Rather, speciation relied on a group of animals being isolated from the larger population and put under pressure to survive.

Synthetic Speciation, by Dr Heribert Nilsson, Professor of Botany from the University of Lund, Sweden.

To give an example of the way man operates compared to other animals, consider speciation, which, as we know, tends to occur when a small group of animals gets separated from the rest of the herd by some geological upheaval, population pressure, food shortage, or whatever, and finds itself in a new environment with maybe something different going on.

If that trend held for long, Sax thought, it would lead to a kind of physicalization of class-a late emergence or retroactive unveiling of Marx's bleak vision-only more extreme than Marx, because now class distinctions would be exhibited as an actual physiological difference caused by a bimodal distribution, something almost akin to speciation.

If that trend held for long, Sax thought, it would lead to a kind of physicalization of class—a late emergence or retroactive unveiling of Marx’s bleak vision—only more extreme than Marx, because now class distinctions would be exhibited as an actual physiological difference caused by a bimodal distribution, something almost akin to speciation.

The paper was entitled "Frequencies of Biologic Contact According to Speciation Probabilities.

And we've already come across improbabilities that are way beyond this bound, such as Fred Hoyle's figure for the likelihood of the full complement of human proteins arising through chance, or Lee Spetner's for speciation and convergence.

Brock believes the mummies represent the first clear evidence of a human speciation event,” Merton said, hoping to move things along.