How to Use speciation in a Sentence

speciation

noun

• Wolf has come to think that this might be the mechanism of their speciation.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Some experts think that even today hybrid speciation may be far from rare.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Among the types of speciation that do, the most important is called allopatric.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
• The news comes after speciation on social media that the drink had been removed from the menu.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• The sequences of only one or a few genes cannot reveal the full history of speciation in oaks.
  — Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• Groups with high rates of speciation evolve quickly, said Lieberman.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• The oak genome is thus a mosaic shaped by speciation and hybridization.
  — Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• On Daphne, the conditions may have been just right for hybrid speciation.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Instead, Janke said, at least some of the whale speciation has been driven by personal taste.
  — Author: Karen Weintraub, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• That suggests females prefer mates of one plumage and song or another; their choices may have sent the birds down speciation’s track.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• There were short spikes of speciation interspersed by longer periods of stasis.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• However, speciation is a historical process that takes place over a long period of time.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
• The result, in the first half of the book, is a dense but lucid guide to the history and biology of speciation on Earth.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• The breakneck pace of that speciation event turned heads both in the scientific community and in the media.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
• And the idea of the potential of a child — that spoke to me of a moment of speciation and that opened up themes that were very interesting and avenues of story.
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• But other researchers say the research appears to show how sympatric speciation happens—and in this case, happened so quickly.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• These evolutionary bursts could also be equated with splitting or speciation events.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
• But later versions began to include speciation, which depends on an island’s size rather than its isolation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
• And, not surprisingly, the animals more likely to evolve toxic defenses than to lose them, which makes sense for a trait that spurs speciation.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2015
• By looking at the statistics of extinction and speciation events, which happen when new dinosaurs evolve, researchers found signs of decline for many species.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Others, like Tautz and Mallet, decided to focus on the speciation process.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• And as water froze into glaciers, sea levels dropped, isolating shallow seas and creating niches for speciation.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 18 Sep. 2019
• Most speciation around an O’Rourke campaign has centered on the Senate race, rather than a bid for governor.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
• By pinpointing many such transfers, then, scientists can sort out the relative order of speciation involved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018
• At other times, extinction crises cut back life on Earth, and speciation did not immediately follow.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2021
• In the other model, differences in species emerge in stages as a lineage cracks open opportunities available to it, which means that the rate of speciation can both rise and fall over time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• Hybrid speciation, in which a new species originates from a cross-species pairing, has been documented in butterflies, fish, toads and dolphins.
  — Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• In one, rapid diversification in some aspect of body morphology produces a burst of new species at first, and then speciation slows as the available niches fill up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• During this speciation event, two ancestral chromosomes may have converged to form what is now chromosome 2 in modern humans.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2023
• This gave the scientist the inkling that evolution could take different paths of speciation depending on an island’s unique conditions.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024