Sentence examples for split into species from inspiring English sources

Say females in two populations prefer different color patterns in males: Even if the populations have the same needs in every other way, that simple preference could make them split into species with males of separate colors.

Marine biologists at the University of Utah examined these louse genes and determined their hosts split into three species 5 6 million years ago, and these species were all equally abundant before whaling began in the 11th century.

It is unclear at this point whether or not the more infrequent but unique genotypes of P. ultimum such as the genotype U6 should be split into different species, reducing the observed genetic diversity within this species.

But about 5 million years ago, in one species of cicada (pictured), one bacterial partner split into two species, researchers report in the current issue of Cell.

They recommended that the marsh rice rat be split into two species and that O. couesi be split into four species on the basis of the observed sequence divergence and other data.

In the past, physically distinct but closely related forms have either been "lumped" into one species, with each form classified as a subspecies, or "split" into two species.

Perhaps eventually we'll split into two species.

She lived long before our primate line had split into the species we know today – the spider monkeys, baboons and gorillas to name but a few.

Man and mouse are cousins, each descended from a small mammal that split into two species toward the end of the dinosaur era.

They concluded that humans and Neanderthals, our closest relatives, split into two species around the time fire was harnessed - between 465,000 and 569,000 years ago, with the most likely estimate being 516,000 years ago.

They are so diverse, they have almost split into two species.