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Genetic Divergence, Reproductive Isolation and Speciation

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Species are the most readily recognizable units in the diversity of life and the mechanism of speciation has always been and still is a central problem in evolutionary biology.33 Almost all species with which we come in contact in daily life and certainly a large proportion of the formally described species show large gaps of qualitative or quantitative nature and this large gap has been a stumbling block to the study of speciation. This is for two reasons. First, presence of large gaps between species meant that species-specific traits could not be subjected to Mendelian genetic analysis, and second, the large gaps observed between species were used to propose theories of speciation which went against the neo-Darwinian mechanisms of gradual evolution (e.g., see Bateson 1894, Goldschmidt 1940). It is therefore not surprising that most genetic theories of speciation advocating macroevolutionary mechanisms of speciation, prior to the advent of molecular techniques in 1960s, were based on large changes in the genome such as chromosomal changes or macromutations.23,59 On the other hand, the neo-Darwinian theories were based on a collection of genetic and ecological factors, with strong emphasis on natural selection and geographic isolation which was required to complete the job of reproductive isolation.20,27,32,55

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Singh, R.S., Zeng, LW. (1994). Genetic Divergence, Reproductive Isolation and Speciation. In: Golding, B. (eds) Non-Neutral Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2383-3_18

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