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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: evolutionary biology
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
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History
Named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
