Speciation and Disruptive Selection

May 13, 2024 | by Bloom Code Studio

Disruptive selection has the potential to result in speciation, forming two or more distinct species.
If disruptive selection keeps happening, it might slowly split the group into two parts. These parts become so different that they don’t share traits anymore.
As long as there are some individuals with traits from both groups, we call it disruptive selection. If, at some point, no hybrids are left, and the split is complete, we call it divergent directional selection.

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