Plateaus, forests, lakes, coastlines, These various geographical features and climate conditions have helped to form and preserve widely different species.
Sheela Turbek: Normally, for speciation to occur organisms have to be confined to different geographic regions in order to accumulate genetic differences.
But from reasons already assigned I can by no means agree with this naturalist, that migration and isolation are necessary elements for the formation of new species.
I was quite surprised by my results because they were contrasting to so many other species, where the oldest males sire the most offspring or the males with the largest territories.
Where many species of a genus have been formed through variation, circumstances have been favourable for variation; and hence we might expect that the circumstances would generally still be favourable to variation.
This new center of endemism is emerging a large-scale water tower that wasn't known peatlands that weren't known, source lakes that weren't known are being documented for the first time in the 21st Century.
And it's just about impossible to be sure exactly which species made a particular set of tracks unless they literally died in them, so fossilized tracks aren't given the same name as the animal that made them.
This species forms a marked exception, crouching and creeping in compliance with the most rigorous demands of climate; yet enduring bravely to a more advanced age than many of its lofty relatives in the sun-lands far below it.