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The mechanisms and processes which lead to new species

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Natural selection and speciation: 'Ecological speciation'.

Natural selection is generally recognized as a central mechanism of evolutionary change within species. ... Thus, the populations cease exchanging genes, thereby diverging into separate species because of the adaptive changes that occurred via natural selection.

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