On the dependence of speciation rates on species abundance and characteristic population size.

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The question of the potential importance for speciation of large/small population sizes remains open. We compare speciation rates in twelve major taxonomic groups that differ by twenty orders of magnitude in characteristic species abundance (global population number). It is observed that the twenty orders of magnitude's difference in species abundances scales to less than two orders of magnitude's difference in...

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