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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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Coyne, J. Genetics and speciation. Nature 355, 511–515 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/355511a0
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