Darwin Told Us So: UBC Researcher Shows Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation, Innovations-report Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: In the first experiment of its kind conducted in nature, a University of British Columbia evolutionary biologist has come up with strong evidence for one of Charles Darwin's cornerstone ideas - adaptation to the environment accelerates the creation of new species. "A single adaptive trait such as color could move a population towards the process of forming a new species, but adaptation in many traits may be required to actually complete the formation of an entirely new species," says (...)."The more ways a population can adapt to its unique surroundings, the more likely it will ultimately diverge into a separate species." (...)