SPECIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speciation mean? 

• SPECIATION (noun)
  The noun SPECIATION has 1 sense:

1. the evolution of a biological species

  Familiarity information: SPECIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECIATION (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)

 Context examples 

The random change of the occurrence of a particular gene in a population, genetic drift is thought to be one cause of speciation when a group of organisms is separated from its parent population.

(Genetic Drift, NCI Thesaurus)