Sequence of Speciation
- The process of becoming a new species
- Reproductive Potential – Organisms have the potential to produce more offspring than the environment can support
- Variation – Within every population there are many variations
- Competition – There is competition between the members of every population for the limited resources in their environment
- Natural Selection – Some individuals in every population are selected for and survive, and some are selected against and die
- Divergence – Divergence occurs when there is an accumulation of differences in allele frequencies between reproductively isolated populations in a species
- Isolation – Isolation occurs when diverging populations are kept from reproducing with one another
- New Species – Eventually, a new species forms