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Speciation Post Synthesis: 1960–2000

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Speciation—the origin of new species—has been one of the most active areas of research in evolutionary biology, both during, and since the Modern Synthesis. While the Modern Synthesis certainly shaped research on speciation in significant ways, providing a core framework, and set of categories and methods to work with, the history of work on speciation since the mid-twentieth century is a history of divergence and diversification. This piece traces this divergence, through both theoretical advances, and empirical insights into how different lineages, with different genetics and ecological conditions, are shaped by very different modes of diversification.

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Paul Sniegowski, Art Dunham, and Neil Shubin for inspiring my interest in speciation. I also wish to thank Nick Barton, Brian Charlesworth, and Alan Templeton for their gracious assistance, and willingness to be interviewed for this essay. Thank you also to Gar Allan and several anonymous reviewers at JHB for their extensive feedback. Last but certainly not least, I wish to thank Greg Gandenberger for constructing the figure. All errors are my own.

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Plutynski, A. Speciation Post Synthesis: 1960–2000. J Hist Biol 52, 569–596 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-018-9512-4

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