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  2. Symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Symbiosis (Ancient Greek συμβίωσις symbíōsis: living with, companionship < σύν sýn: together; and βίωσις bíōsis: living) [2] is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction, between two organisms of different species. The two organisms, termed symbionts, can be either in a mutualistic, a commensalistic, or a ...

  3. Glossary of genetics and evolutionary biology - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon by which two or more populations of a single species exist in geographic isolation from one another. allopolyploid A polyploid cell or organism in which the several sets of chromosomes originate from more than one species, as in an intraspecific hybrid. [1] allo-sympatric speciation

  4. Cooperation (evolution) - Wikipedia

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    Mutualism involves a close, mutually beneficial interaction between two different biological species, whereas "cooperation" is a more general term that can involve looser interactions and can be interspecific (between species) or intraspecific (within a species). In commensalism, one of the two participating species benefits, while the other is ...

  5. Pair bond - Wikipedia

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    Close to ninety percent [3] of known avian species are monogamous, compared to five percent of known mammalian species.The majority of monogamous avians form long-term pair bonds which typically result in seasonal mating: these species breed with a single partner, raise their young, and then pair up with a new mate to repeat the cycle during the next season.

  6. Speciation - Wikipedia

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    That is, the splitting of an existing species into two separate species, or the budding off of a new species from a parent species, both driven by a biological "fashion fad" (a preference for a feature, or features, in one or both sexes, that do not necessarily have any adaptive qualities).

  7. Homophily - Wikipedia

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    Homophily (from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós) 'same, common' and φιλία (philía) 'friendship, love') is a concept in sociology describing the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others, as in the proverb " birds of a feather flock together ". [1]

  8. Scientists map where 27 different types of love are felt in ...

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    The study surveyed hundreds of participants online about how they experienced 27 different types of love, such as romantic love, sexual love, parental love, and love for friends, strangers, nature ...

  9. Hybrid (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A mule is a sterile hybrid of a male donkey and a female horse.Mules are smaller than horses but stronger than donkeys, making them useful as pack animals.. In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.