Question

What are some of the factors that drive speciation?

Answer 1

Speciation is a process of formation of new species.

Speciation occurs due to various environmental factors.

geographical isolation which are generated by geographical barriers like river formation, volcano, leads to change in Habitat which leads to formation of new species.

Reproductive isolation or change in the reproduction process leads to formation of new species.

Selection of mating partner under reproductive isolation leads to formation of new species.

Natural selection also involved in the formation of new species or aquiring new characters.

Competition also leads to changes in the physiological process of species which leads to formation of new species.

changes in the characters of their own leads to speciation.