New research could herald an important shift in thinking about the genomics of speciation. The prevailing assumption about how the genomes of newly forming species should differ during the earliest ...

Or is so-called sympatric speciation also possible -- the evolutionary divergence of a population within the same geographical area? Only few examples of sympatric speciation are known worldwide, and ...

The Midas cichlid fish from the crater lakes of Nicaragua are one of the the best known examples for sympatric speciation. They evolved from a source population into a variety of independent species ...