subspeciation
English edit
Etymology edit
sub- + speciation
Noun edit
subspeciation (plural subspeciations)
- (biology, taxonomy) The formation or evolution of a subspecies.
- 2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 58:
- The first procedure would signify a process of successive subspeciations while the second one would mean simultaneous subspeciations, although this is not mandatory.