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Genetics and speciation

Nature volume 355, pages 511–515 (1992)Cite this article

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Called the "mystery of mysteries" by Darwin, speciation is still a little-understood area of evolution. Genetic analysis, however, has yielded new generalizations about speciation and suggests promising avenues of research.

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