Example sentences for: gavrilets

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  • Despite their very different approaches, Coyne and Orr and Gavrilets arrive at rather similar conclusions on some of the most controversial issues in speciation.

  • But while admitting the plausibility of Gavrilets's models of speciation by genetic drift, they nevertheless maintain that “the models seem unnecessary when compared to adaptive ones” (p.

  • Gavrilets cites empirical studies (with which he has very broad familiarity) plentifully, but as a theoretician, he does not evaluate them or describe them in depth.

  • A deep reading of his book will require considerably more mathematical competence than most evolutionary biologists (including this reviewer) have, but Gavrilets provides excellent verbal explanations of the models' assumptions and conclusions, as well as comparisons and critiques of related models.

  • Moreover, Coyne and Orr note weaknesses in all three cases, as well as in examples of “host races” that have been advanced as species in statu nascendi . Coyne and Orr's conclusion echoes Gavrilets's: “It is hard to see how the data at hand can justify the current wave of enthusiasm for sympatric speciation” (p.


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