In this article we will discuss about Speciation and its types:- Divergent speciation
and Transformation speciation
- Formation of new species is called speciation
- New species are formed in Variety of ways
- Speciation are of two types
- Divergent speciation
- Transformation speciation
1. DIVERGENT SPECIATION
- New species are formed from an ancestor species
- Divergent speciations are of two types
i) Allopatric speciation
- Two populations of same species become isolated from each other due to geographic changes
- Evolution of allopatric population into separate species is called allopatric speciation
- It is speciation in different place
ii) Sympatric speciation
- Evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region.
- It is speciation in same place
2. TRANSFORMATION SPECIATION
- Ancestor species changes into a new species
- Transformation speciation are of two types
i) Phyletic speciation
- Ancestor species changes into new species
- It is gradual changes
ii) Quantum speciation
- Suddenly major changes appears in ancestor species
- Ancestor immediately changed into new species
- No connective links are present in this type of speciation
- It is caused by major mutation
