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  2. Speciation - Wikipedia

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    The fact that the lines remain parallel with the time axis illustrates the unchanging appearance of each of the fossil species depicted on the graph. During each species' existence new species appear at random intervals, each also lasting many hundreds of thousands of years before disappearing without a change in appearance.

  3. Molecular evolution - Wikipedia

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    Retrogenes generally insert into new genomic locations, lack introns. and sometimes develop new expression patterns and functions. Chimeric genes form when duplication, deletion, or incomplete retrotransposition combine portions of two different coding sequences to produce a novel gene sequence.

  4. Transmutation of species - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, Diderot argued that organic molecules and organic matter possessed an inherent consciousness, which allowed the smallest particles of organic matter to organize into fibers, then a network, and then organs. The idea that organic molecules have consciousness was derived from both Maupertuis and Lucretian texts.

  5. Introduction to evolution - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous species of cichlids that demonstrate dramatic variations in morphology. Given the right circumstances, and enough time, evolution leads to the emergence of new species. Scientists have struggled to find a precise and all-inclusive definition of species. Ernst Mayr defined a species as a population or group of populations ...

  6. History of speciation - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Darwin, in his 1859 publication, focused primarily on the changes that can occur within a species, and less on how species may divide into two. [4]: 1 It is almost universally accepted that Darwin's book did not directly address its title. [1] Darwin instead saw speciation as occurring by species entering new ecological niches. [4]: 125

  7. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    Natural selection is ubiquitous in all research pertaining to evolution, taking note of the fact that all of the following examples in each section of the article document the process. Alongside this are observed instances of the separation of populations of species into sets of new species .

  8. Mutation - Wikipedia

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    These type of mutation have led to new types of fruits, such as the "Delicious" apple and the "Washington" navel orange. [92] Human and mouse somatic cells have a mutation rate more than ten times higher than the germline mutation rate for both species; mice have a higher rate of both somatic and germline mutations per cell division than

  9. Anagenesis - Wikipedia

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    Anagenesis is the gradual evolution of a species that continues to exist as an interbreeding population. This contrasts with cladogenesis, which occurs when there is branching or splitting, leading to two or more lineages and resulting in separate species. [1] Anagenesis does not always lead to the formation of a new species from an ancestral ...