speciation

Looking at the graphs, there is no reason to believe that whales and flies have similar speciation times.

And parapatric speciation gives more weight to natural selection so it used to be the preferred explanation.

The one plausible scepticism is speciation, which must be inferred from the data as opposed to being directly observed.

People have this fair speciation that anything in a browser will run well on their 5 year old laptop.

In general, speciation is a complicated and poorly understood topic with a lot of controversies remaining.

The concept of evolution- specifically survival of the fittest and speciation- remain in the current theories.

Being genetically capable of interbreeding makes sense as a definition of speciation, but that is not how species are currently identified.

It makes sense that simple historical happenstance is the cause of much speciation.

It probably dates back before Homo-Pan speciation four to six million years ago.

Being from an un-contacted tribe has nothing whatsoever to do with speciation.

It may be unsettling for us egotistic humans, but the domestication process can be mutual to the extent that it causes Speciation in both parties.

Not everybody has time to keep up with the continuous and rapidly increasing micro-speciation of all ruby projects from the VMs down to template formats.

Reading the description of the "speciation clock", i would have imagined a sharp distribution with a very tall peak at 2 million years.

"...continuous and rapidly increasing micro-speciation of all ruby projects from the VMs down to template formats." This is simply bullshit.

This main thrust of this paper seems to be the idea that genetic drift is the primary driver of speciation (the process of creating new species.) The paper also makes claims about a "speciation clock" that seems to tick every 2 million years, for many different species.

What's more, the journalist seems to think that this "finding" means she can downplay natural selection, when in fact this article should really be nothing more than an emphasis of the role of chance in speciation since natural selection is basically predicated on the biodiversity caused by chance mutations.

Speciation and evolution are not directly connected, but this is a minor point.

Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches.

This is a process that can and does take thousands of years, and if it is happening you are probably not going to expect to see a transformation in morphology (Speciation) during a human lifetime.