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Why can polyploidy individuals lead to speciation fairly quickly?

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In species with polyploid, there are more chromosomal sets than in diploid one. Becouse there are more chromosomal structures available, events like mutation, recombination, DNA lose, are more probable to occur.

As the generations pass, the accumulation of these changes tend polyploid to speciation.

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