FORWARD SPECIATION. “Darwin (1859) developed the theory of natural selection to explain how populations diverge morphologically and ecologically as they adapt to local environmental conditions. To Darwin, speciation was simply the end point of a chronological series of steps, beginning with variation among individuals within species to the production of adaptively differentiated varieties and eventually to new species, with extinctions occurring along the way.”
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