Chronospecies Chronospecies

Chronospecies - Definition and Overview

A chronospecies is a species which is reproductively isolated from its relatives by existing in a different time period.

A fossil line could be viewed as a number of chronospecies or as a continuously changing single species; the breakdown is therefore inevitably fuzzy.

Examples of chronospecies are Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo heidelbergensis.

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