speciation
See also: spéciation
English
Noun
speciation (usually uncountable, plural speciations)
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 55:
- No one had ever seen a new species produced, nor, according to Darwin, should they expect to. Speciation was so drawn out as to be, for all intents and purposes unobservable.
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- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species is/are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
- requirements specifying speciation and serotyping in addition to reporting of presence or absence
Antonyms
- despeciation
Derived terms
- allochronic speciation
- allopatric speciation
- microspeciation
- parapatric speciation
- peripatric speciation
- speciation event
- subspeciation
- sympatric speciation
Translations
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