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- Title
Speciation-by-Extinction.
- Authors
Seeholzer, Glenn F; Brumfield, Robb T
- Abstract
Extinction is a dominant force shaping patterns of biodiversity through time; however its role as a catalyst of speciation through its interaction with intraspecific variation has been overlooked. Here, we synthesize ideas alluded to by Darwin and others into the model of "speciation-by-extinction" in which speciation results from the extinction of intermediate populations within a single geographically variable species. We explore the properties and distinguishing features of speciation-by-extinction with respect to other established speciation models. We demonstrate its plausibility by showing that the experimental extinction of populations within variable species can result in speciation. The prerequisites for speciation-by-extinction, geographically structured intraspecific variation and local extinction, are ubiquitous in nature. We propose that speciation-by-extinction may be a prevalent, but underappreciated, speciation mechanism.
- Subjects
DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; CHEMICAL speciation; GENETIC speciation; SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL extinction
- Publication
Systematic Biology, 2023, Vol 72, Issue 6, p1433
- ISSN
1063-5157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sysbio/syad049