Professor Katie Peichel is head of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern, and she joins the podcast today to discuss a range of fascinating topics, including the development of new species, debate over how to define one species from another and the biological species concept, how behavioral differences can lead to reproduction barriers, speciation as the byproduct of adaptation to different environments, marine stickleback reproduction, behavior, and evolution and the work she’s doing in her lab to further understanding in these areas, the performance of hybrid species in the wild, viable versus nonviable hybrid species, and how phenotypic changes happen.

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