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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Fields of Study > evolutionary biology > evolution > biological speciation > sympatric speciation
Preferred Term:

sympatric speciation

Definition:
A mechanism for the evolution of new species whereby two populations of a species exhibiting the same or overlapping geographical distributions gradually evolve through genetic divergence into two different species.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
biological speciation
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/196664
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