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Wallace effects

Wallace effects is the plural of Wallace effect.

Meaning of Wallace effect

Noun

Wallace effect (plural Wallace effects)

  1. (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.

Questions about Wallace effects

What is Wallace effects the plural of?
Wallace effects is the plural of Wallace effect.

Words near Wallace effects in the dictionary

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