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What does peripatric mean?

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  1. (biology) Living in overlapping territories.
  2. (genetics) Living in overlapping territories without interbreeding.
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This is similar to peripatric speciation in that a small population enters a new habitat, but differs in that there is no physical separation between these two populations.
The second mechanism of speciation is peripatric speciation, which occurs when small populations of organisms become isolated in a new environment.

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