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If a land mass separates and moves many miles away from it's parent land mass you will possibly split apart a species that lived in the vicinity. Geographic isolation ensues and any mutations that happen in the two populations now statistically vary and can not enter a common gene pool, but enter each separate gene pool. This can cause allele frequencies to change in the separate gene pools, among other processes, to begin new species.

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