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Animal species and evolution

Ernst Mayr
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The article was published on 1963-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7870 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species problem.

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Sequential colonization and diversification of galapagos endemic land snail genus bulimulus (gastropoda, stylommatophora)

Christine E. Parent, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2006 - 
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the diversification of Galápagos bulimulid land snails has been driven by a combination of geographic factors, which affect colonization patterns, and ecological factors, such as plant species diversity, that foster within-island speciation.
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Lower Devonian conodont sequence, Royal creek, Yukon Territory, and Devon island, Canada

Gilbert Klapper
- 01 Jan 1969 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the evolutionary relationships within the Argopecten gibbus stock by working back through the fossil record from a model of the morphological and ecological relationships of living species and subspecies.
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Two decades of genetic profiling yields first evidence of natal philopatry and long‐term fidelity to parturition sites in sharks

Kevin A. Feldheim, +8 more
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: Genetic profiling of lemon sharks from 20 consecutive cohorts at Bimini, Bahamas, showed that certain females faithfully gave birth at this site for nearly two decades, providing the first direct evidence of natal philopatry in the chondrichthyans.
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Sexual selection and speciation in mammals, butterflies and spiders.

Matthew J. G. Gage, +3 more
- 22 Nov 2002 - 
TL;DR: A comparative approach is used to test whether two general measures of sexual selection and the potential for sexual conflict have influenced speciation, and shows that speciation occurs independently ofsexual selection.
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Global taxonomic diversity of living reptiles.

Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, +3 more
- 27 Mar 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is found that the distributions of lineage richness are consistently right-skewed, with most clades (monophyletic families and genera) containing few lineages (monophletic genera and species, respectively), while only a few have radiated greatly (notably the families Colubridae and Scincidae, and the lizard genera Anolis and Liolaemus).