Character displacement describes how traits become more different in populations of two species that live in the same area (sympatric) compared to populations of those same species that live in different areas (allopatric).
El desplazamiento de caracteres es la tendencia de características a ser más divergentes en poblaciones simpátricas de dos especies que en poblaciones alopátricas de las mismas dos especies.
| Front | character displacement |
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| Back | The tendency for characteristics to be more divergent in sympatric populations of two species than in allopatric populations of the same two species. |
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