Sentence examples for questions of speciation from inspiring English sources
The chemical structures and functions of insect pheromones have been intensely studied because of the fascinating diversity of behavioral properties and relevance to questions of speciation, reproductive isolation, and applications to pest control (Witzgall et al., 2010).
Mr Mayr's contribution was to tackle the question of speciation head-on and solve it.
Darwin's own experiments with pigeons and barnacles are largely ignored, and it should have been made clear that rather than being diversions from his taking on the problem of species, they were very much part of his plan to tackle the question of speciation.
Group 3 was assigned both a multi-part homework question on speciation and the PDFs for only one of the case studies from the speciation module.
The question of ecological speciation of bacteria is still in debate (Achtman and Wagner 2008) partly because the bacterial species definition is at the center of this debate.
Despite concerted recent efforts, many major questions regarding the process of speciation remain unanswered.
Identifying which isolating mechanisms are first to evolve during population divergence and which are most important in allowing recently diverged taxa to remain genetically distinct remain important questions in the field of speciation research.
Our analyses of reproductive isolation among toads raise important questions about the broad features of speciation due to the fact that toads deviate from these patterns in several ways.
We like to admit that open questions remain, such as the mechanisms of speciation or the role of sex in evolution as seen from a traditional perspective; but those questions are left at some distance from the fundamentals, and in that sense, traditional theory can be said to be complete.
In the study of speciation, a crucial question is how species persist despite gene flow.
A current concern in the study of speciation genetics is the question of which reproductive isolation mechanisms evolve first.
