Question for Week 12:
"Speciation and Extinction"

due: Thursday, April 9, at the beginning of class

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Explain what is meant by the following statement.

Mating systems play 2 roles in eukaryotic evolution: 1) they provide pre-zygotic isolation systems that foster the process of speciation, and 2) they are often subjected to sexual selection within a species.


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