VICARIANCE
- The geographical separation of a population, typically by a physical barrier such as a mountain range or river, resulting in a pair of closely related species
- fragmentation of the environment, eg by plate tectonic splitting, as opposed to dispersal as a mechanism for biological evolution [n -S]
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