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Gavrilets also identifies the cost of female choosiness as a critical issue: many models of sympatric speciation depend on the assumption that females always succeed in mating even if the male type they prefer is rare, so their choosiness has no cost.
Gavrilets criticizes some popular models of sympatric speciation on these and other grounds, and while granting that sympatric speciation by divergent habitat or host preference is plausible, he concludes that it need not be faster than allopatric speciation and that “contrary to common claims in recent theoretical papers, conditions for sympatric speciation are not wide and sympatric speciation does not occur easily” (p.
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.
Coyne and Orr fully accept both Barton and Charlesworth's critique and Gavrilets's alternative model.
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.