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Question
Define speciation according to A.E. Emerson and explain its types giving suitable examples.
Solution
A.E. Emerson defines species as a ‘genetically distinctive, reproductively isolated natural population’. Speciation is a fundamental process in evolution. If one species diverges to become two or more species it is cladogenesis or divergent evolution.
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