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championed the concept of ring species, stating that it unequivocally demonstrated the process of speciation. A ring species is an alternative model to allopatric speciation, "illustrating how new species can arise through 'circular overlap', without interruption of gene flow through intervening populations..." However, Jerry Coyne and H. Allen Orr point out that rings species more closely model parapatric speciation.

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