Wallace effect
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Etymology
Named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
Noun
Wallace effect (plural Wallace effects)
- (ecology, evolutionary biology) A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting against the production of hybrid individuals of low fitness.
Further reading
Wallace effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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