Character Displacement

• Taper and Case: Necessary criteria: 1. Morphological differences between sympatric species are statistically greater than differences between allopatric populations.2. Differences between sympatric and allopatric populations have genetic basis.3. Differences between sympatric and allopatric pops. evolved in place, and are not derived from different founder pops already differing in the character.

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