Disjunct distributions of closely related species are not necessarily the outcome of passive fragmentation of populations. Instead, they can be the consequence of speciation within a population.
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Tautz, D. Splitting in space. Nature 421, 225–226 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/421225b
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