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Speciation, the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution. Speciation involves the splitting of a single evolutionary lineage into two or more genetically independent lineages.
Examples of sympatric speciation are often disputed because they must show convincing evidence of species descending from the same ancestral species, the reproductive isolation of the group, and of allopatry not causing the speciation.