diversity

• Evolution and speciation are important processes in driving the diversity of life.
• Speciation

  • Speciation happens when two or more species emerge from one species.
  • Speciation is the process that has led to the huge diversity of species that exist in life today.
  • Every species originally stemmed from a single population.
  • This demonstrates how speciation is very important in generating diversity.
• Evolution

  • New species can emerge through speciation because of evolution.
  • When two populations are reproductively isolated, natural selection causes the separate populations to evolve in different directions.
  • The continuous cycle of evolution and speciation is what has led to the diversity we see today.