ArticleEvolutionary biology2012
Goldilocks Meets Santa Rosalia: An Ephemeral Speciation Model Explains Patterns of Diversification Across Time Scales.
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- Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees.Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology · 2024Article
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- Hybridization in birds-of-paradise: Widespread ancestral gene flow despite strong sexual selection in a lek-mating system.iScience · 2024Article
- Diversity-dependent speciation and extinction in hominins.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Inferring the evolution of reproductive isolation in a lineage of fossil threespine stickleback,Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- How Important Is Sexual Isolation to Speciation?Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Ecological structure of diversity-dependent diversification in Phanerozoic marine bivalves.Biology letters · 2024Article
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Abstract
Understanding the rate at which new species form is a key question in studying the evolution of life on earth. Here we review our current understanding of speciation rates, focusing on studies based on the fossil record, phylogenies, and mathematical models. We find that speciation rates estimated from these different studies can be dramatically different: some studies find that new species form quickly and often, while others find that new species form much less frequently. We suggest that instead of being contradictory, differences in speciation rates across different scales can be reconciled by a common model. Under the "ephemeral speciation model", speciation is very common and very rapid but the new species produced almost never persist. Evolutionary studies should therefore focus on not only the formation but also the persistence of new species.
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