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SPECIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The evolution of a biological species
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("speciation" is a kind of...):
evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)
Derivation:
speciate (evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment)
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