Editing Speciation (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Analyzing</span> ==
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|+ Allopatric vs. Sympatric Speciation
! Feature !! Allopatric (Different Place) !! Sympatric (Same Place)
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| Cause || Geographic Barrier || Behavioral / Genetic Change
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| Frequency || Very Common || Less Common (mostly in plants/insects)
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| Speed || Usually slow (thousands of years) || Can be instant (via Polyploidy)
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| Analogy || Two friends moving to different cities || Two friends in the same city joining different cults
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'''The Concept of "The Niche"''': A niche is a "job" in the ecosystem (e.g., "The bird that eats the hard seeds"). If a niche is empty, a species will rapidly split and evolve to fill it. Analyzing the "Economic Opportunity" of the environment is how we understand why some places (like Hawaii) have so many unique species.
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