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Hybrid zones are areas in which members of two different species meet and mate
producing some offspring of mixed ancestry
Speciation can occur rapidly or slowly depending on environmental changes
directional selection: population changes taking place one direction to an
extreme (bigger brains / faster)
disruptive selection: populations changing so that the extremes survive (sizes of
acorns)
stabilizing selection: populations changing so that the extremes are eliminated
(rabbit leg length)
population: organisms of the same species that have mating access to each other
population adaptation: any trait that increases the population's chances of
surviving environmental change
geographic isolation: mountains, rivers, oceans, or deserts separating
populations
isolation: separation of a population
reproductive isolation: barriers to mating such as physical size, behavior,
structural differences
speciation: one species becoming several
adaptive radiation: rapid speciation occurring when a population arrives on an
island without competition