Meanings
nounsubspeciation (plural subspeciations)
plural subspeciations
- biologyThe formation or evolution of a subspecies.
The first procedure would signify a process of successive subspeciations while the second one would mean simultaneous subspeciations, although this is not mandatory.
2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 58
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