especially peripatric speciation as applied to the fossil record. Although the sudden appearance of species and its relationship to speciation was proposed and...

Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine in 1996, and New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record in 1995. "Advisory board: Current...

Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Benton, M. J.; Pearson, P. N. (2001). "Speciation in the fossil record". Trends in Ecology and Evolution...

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for...

allo-parapatric speciation A mode of speciation where divergence occurs in allopatry and is completed upon secondary contact of the populations--effectively...

living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil...

geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model: 86  – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations...

In 1995, D. H. Erwin, et al. published a major work—New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record—which compiled 58 studies of fossil speciation (between...

due to its fossil incompleteness and the proximity to the human-chimpanzee split, the exact position of Ardipithecus in the fossil record is unclear....

Sahelanthropus and Orrorin existed during the estimated duration of the ancestral chimpanzee–human speciation events, within the range of eight to four million years...