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Mayr combined selection with genetic drift in his theory of founder-effect speciation (divergence in populations founded by just a few individuals), which became widely accepted.
Many readers will have a visceral reaction against their position on sympatric speciation, reinforcement, founder-effect speciation, or other issues—but can these readers counter Coyne and Orr's arguments with equally cogent analysis?
Gavrilets analyzes founder-effect speciation (which combines drift and selection), agrees with most other theoreticians (e.g.
Assuming that experiments with laboratory populations can be validly extrapolated to natural speciation processes, founder-effect speciation may indeed be a moribund hypothesis, but I do not believe long-term genetic drift can yet be ruled out, and cannot agree that this “important debate has been settled” (p.