A new study in Nature Communications offers a fresh explanation for one of evolution’s most persistent puzzles: why some groups of mammals become extraordinarily diverse while others remain represented by only a handful of species. The research, led by I. Rey-Rodríguez, G. Sotelo and S. Gamboa, finds that two processes often treated as interchangeable may actually follow different evolutionary rules. The emergence of new species—diversification—…
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