wallace effect

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What does wallace effect mean?

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.

Where does wallace effect come from?

Named after Alfred Russel Wallace.

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