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Origin of species • What is a species? • Maintenance of species. • Modes of speciation. • Rate of speciation.
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Origin of species
• What is a species?• Maintenance of
species.• Modes of speciation.• Rate of speciation.
Species & Species concepts• Biological Species:• A population or group
of populations whose have the ability to interbreed with one another in nature, producing viable offspring
• Evolutionary species: fossil record, morphology