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Character displacement and the origins of diversity.

The American naturalist - 1 Dec 2010

Pfennig David W, Pfennig Karin S

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In The Origin of Species, Darwin proposed his principle of divergence of character (a process now termed "character displacement") to explain how new species arise and why they differ from each other phenotypically. Darwin maintained that the origin of species and the evolution of differences between them is ultimately caused by divergent selection acting to minimize competitive interactions between initially...

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PMID: 21043778
DOI: 10.1086/657056
PMCID: PMC3285564

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