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    The document discusses speciation and the mechanisms that lead to the formation of new species. It defines what a species is and outlines two modes of speciation: cladogenesis, which is branching evolution, and anagenesis, which is non-branching evolution. The document also describes six intrinsic reproductive isolating mechanisms that prevent interbreeding between species, such as ecological isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, gamete isolation, and hybrid inviability or infertility.

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    The document discusses speciation and the mechanisms that lead to the formation of new species. It defines what a species is and outlines two modes of speciation: cladogenesis, which is branching evolution, and anagenesis, which is non-branching evolution. The document also describes six intrinsic reproductive isolating mechanisms that prevent interbreeding between species, such as ecological isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, gamete isolation, and hybrid inviability or infertility.

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    The document discusses speciation and the mechanisms that lead to the formation of new species. It defines what a species is and outlines two modes of speciation: cladogenesis, which is branching evolution, and anagenesis, which is non-branching evolution. The document also describes six intrinsic reproductive isolating mechanisms that prevent interbreeding between species, such as ecological isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, gamete isolation, and hybrid inviability or infertility.

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    BIOLOGY - Macro Evolution

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    The document discusses speciation and the mechanisms that lead to the formation of new species. It defines what a species is and outlines two modes of speciation: cladogenesis, which is branching evolution, and anagenesis, which is non-branching evolution. The document also describes six intrinsic reproductive isolating mechanisms that prevent interbreeding between species, such as ecological isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, gamete isolation, and hybrid inviability or infertility.

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    J.T.

    II Olivar, MAEd
    Faculty of Arts and Letters
    University of Santo Tomas
     What is a species?
     How do new species arise?
     Reproductive isolating mechanisms
     Six intrinsic reproductive isolating

    mechanisms
     When is speciation likely to occur?
     The categorization of Earth’s living

    things
     Constructing evolutionary histories:

    Classical taxonomy and cladistics


     Species are groups of actually or
    potentially interbreeding natural
    populations which are reproductively
    isolated from such other groups.
     Two modes of speciation
    ◦ Cladogenesis – branching evolution
    ◦ Anagenesis – nonbranching evolution
     Speciation occurs when populations
    cease to interbreed
     The role of geographic isolation:

    Allopatric speciation
     Reproductive isolating mechanisms
    prevent interbreeding between
    individuals of the same species or of
    closely related species.
    ◦ Extrinsic
    ◦ Intrinsic
     Ecological isolation
     Temporal isolation
     Behavioral isolation
     Mechanical isolation
     Gamete isolation
     Hybrid inviability or infertility
     Even if they live in the same place,
    they can’t mate if they don’t come in
    contact with one another.
     Even if the come in contact, they
    can’t mate if they breed at different
    times.
     Even if they breed at the same time,
    they will not mate if they are not
    attracted to one another.
     Even if they attract one another,
    they cannot mate if they are not
    physically compatible.
     Even if they are physically
    compatible, an embryo will not form
    if the egg and sperm do not fuse
    properly.
     Even if fertilization occurs
    successfully, the offspring may not
    survive, or if it survives, may not
    reproduce.
     Specialists
     Generalists
     Binomial nomenclature
     Convergent evolution
    ◦ Homologies
    ◦ Analogies
     Cladistics

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