Selection

I remember reading something about that a while ago... which means that I do not remember where or the details. But it was linked with sexual selection. I could see a scenario where the pre-mating calls preferences would separate populations. It might have been in the "Red Queen" by ...

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Interesting question. I am not sure if Natural Selection actually promotes such mechanisms or not. There is published research on pre-mating isloating mechanisms in song birds. In this case, changes in diet result in changes in beak shape. A consequence ...

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How does natural selection promote pre-mating reproductive isolating mechanisms? I'm doing something on two species of frog who have different mating calls as a pre-mating isolating mechanism. In areas where they coexist, they have ...

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Gamila, here is an interesting wiki answers on the topic of cow species that I found, you might like. Three species of cows are now being grouped as one: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_type_of_cow_species_are_there What type of cow species are there? In: Cows and Cattle Cattle were originally identi...

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I have been studying camels and you are right about it being a classification disaster! I will have to update my section on speciation because of it. First there is the wild species they came from, that were classified as two seperate "species", that have been bred together to form hybrid ...

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