Wallace effect

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English

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Etymology

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Named after Alfred Russel Wallace.

Noun

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Wallace effect (plural Wallace effects)

  1. (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.

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