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No, speciation is not a logically necessary consequenceof natural selection. However, given that circumstances can and inevitably will lead to divergence between sub-populations of a species, speciation can be said to be a practically inevitable consequence of evolution. It's a bit like balancing a sharp pencil on its point. Theoretically it can be done. In practice, however, the pencil will fall over the second you let it go.

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