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Animal species and evolution
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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.read more
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Alternative models of vertebrate speciation in Amazonia: an overview
TL;DR: The main hypotheses proposed to explain barrier formation separating populations and causing the differentiation of vertebrate species in Amazonia are based on different (mostly historical) factors, as follows as mentioned in this paper : changes in the distribution of land and sea or in the landscape due to tectonic movements or sea-level fluctuations.
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Ontogenesis and Morphological Diversification
TL;DR: The role of development in constraining the directionality and patterns of morphological evolution is examined and non-randomness in morphologically expressed genetic mutations—an epigenetic property—can result in phyletic trends, parallelisms and convergences.
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A preliminary survey of the cichlid fishes of rocky habitats in Lake Malawi
TL;DR: Most aquarium fishes exported from Lake Malawi are cichlids of 10 rock-frequenting genera collectively referred to by their Chitonga name, Mbuna, which provide a classical example of intralacustrine allopatric speciation.
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Taxonomic triage and the poverty of phylogeny
TL;DR: Clarity of vision and courage of purpose are needed from individual taxonomists and natural history museums to bring about this evolution of taxonomy into the information age.
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Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation
Sergey Gavrilets,Aaron Vose +1 more
TL;DR: This work builds and explores a large-scale, stochastic, spatially explicit, individual-based model of adaptive radiation driven by adaptation to multidimensional ecological niches, and shows that a great majority of speciation events are concentrated early in the phylogeny.