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Why do new species form?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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According to the biological species concept, when the new species no longer can interbreed with the ancestral species, or with the population that it has been geographically isolated from long enough to have allele change significantly enough to prevent interbreeding.

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Species form by when a group of individual remain isolated from the rest of its species long enough to evolve different traits.

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