A founding population of lizards arrives on an island. Which type of isolation would most likely result in this population becoming a new species?

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Biology

Gunnar Mejia

10 January, 02:53

A founding population of lizards arrives on an island. Which type of isolation would most likely result in this population becoming a new species?

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Charlotte Nash · Answer 1

geographical

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temporal

geographical

anatomical

behavioral

Chaim Callahan · Answer 2

The type of isolation for a founding population of lizards that arrives on an island would be geographical. One of the ways in which a new species can emerge is through the physical separation of its populations from geographic barriers that prevent genetic exchange.