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What do you mean by speciation?

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  • Specification is the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other. It involves the splitting of a single evolutionary lineage into two or more genetically independent lineages.

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