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Review. Sympatric, parapatric or allopatric: the most important way to classify speciation?

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Sept 2008

Butlin Roger K, Galindo Juan, Grahame John W

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The most common classification of modes of speciation begins with the spatial context in which divergence occurs: sympatric, parapatric or allopatric. This classification is unsatisfactory because it divides a continuum into discrete categories, concentrating attention on the extremes, and it subordinates other dimensions on which speciation processes vary, such as the forces driving differentiation and the...

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PMID: 18522915
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0076
PMCID: PMC2607313

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