Speciation:
A) maintains an intermediate phenotype in a stable environment.
B) is the formation of a new species from an ancestral population.
C) only occurs when a population is geographically isolated.
D) is a change in allele frequencies in a population.
E) is the end result of macroevolution but not microevolution.

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Speciation is the process by which new species are formed from an ancestral population, often through mechanisms like geographic isolation, genetic divergence, and reproductive isolation.