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Is there a equation that would allow you to calculate how long it would take for an isolated population to become a new species?

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by iwnit on January 25th, 2011
Here some theoretical research articles about the issue of speciation, some equations are included...
- Inferring speciation rates from phylogenies
- Evolutionary branching/speciation
- On Species Evolution
- The Population Genetics of Speciation

Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect
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- Orr uses " obviously " about as often as R. A. Fisher used it.
  
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