New species typically evolve over several million years. However, rates of speciation and ecological diversification vary by orders of magnitude across the tree of life, with the fastest shown by some...

In den Seen tickt eine Zeitbombe, die jahrelang unterschätzt wurde: Die rasante Ausbreitung der invasiven Quagga-Muscheln. Sie bedrohen das ökologische Gleichgewicht und verursachen Millionenschäden i...

Despite the well-known effects of sexual selection on phenotypes, links between this evolutionary process and reproductive isolation, genomic divergence, and speciation have been difficult to establis...

Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin