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Wallace Effect

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Synonyms: Reinforcement

Wallace Effect is a honorific term that relates reinforcement to Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-inventor—if not the original creator himself—of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The concept of reinforcement explains sympatric speciation by enhancing reproductive isolation.

 
   

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