Talk:Ecological speciation

Ecological speciation was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?

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Is nonecological speciation real?

I just added a few putative examples of nonecological speciation that I think help illuminate what's cool about ecological speciation. I'm following this quote from Nosil's 2012 book: "It is useful to consider ecological speciation as its own form of species formation because it focuses on an explicit mechanism of speciation: namely divergent natural selection. There are numerous ways other than via divergent natural selection in which populations might become genetically differentiated and reproductively isolated" p8 <ref>978-0199587100</ref> I'm currently in the process of making a page for nonadaptive radiations... it might make sense to make a separate page for nonecological speciation at some point Jesseseeem (talk) 22:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Recent expansion

So I finally finished rewriting this article to give it better coverage—it was seriously lacking before. I'm sure it has some typos, so anyone wanting to take the time to make corrections it would be much appreciated. Further, the references probably need a little cleaning-up and formatting. The lead could probably use work as well. Some of the lead could possibly be out into a "Definition" section or something similar. The part about how it has been defined as well as the non-ecology part don't seem to go well in the lead. Thoughts? Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 14:58, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 01:00, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
- ALT1: ... that changes in pollinator-pollination relationships can give rise to new species through the process of ecological speciation?

5x expanded by Andrew Z. Colvin (talk). Nominated by Azcolvin429 (talk) at 15:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This article is a very large one that has been expanded recently to a reasonably large degree, sources are fully reliable, copyvio score is inoffensive and the hook is properly sourced in prose. Good to go! --K. Peake 10:48, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Typos

"the environmental conditions that a species lives" (first para, second sentence) needs changing into English. My preference would be "in which a species lives", but I'm no expert on the topic, so there may well be a better formulation. Also, right after that, there's an opening bracket, but no corresponding closing bracket. Again, not an expert, so I'm not entirely sure where the closing bracket should go. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could correct the two issues? HieronymousCrowley (talk) 07:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You’re right. I fixed the prose to more appropriate wording. Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 02:30, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]