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Speciation is a process and can occur at different speeds. Speciation through the
process of adaptive environmental change is generally considered to be slow, as
suggested by the origin of Darwin's species. In this model, speciation occurs when
the organism adapts better to the environment. That’s why human beings can
survive in natural selection. Macroevolution focuses on the formation of new
species and the evolutionary relationships between groups of species. The term
species is often defined as a population that can breed and produce viable, fertile
offspring. These species are reproductively isolated. For example, a farm pond frog
is the same species as an adjacent pond frog, but the two populations do not
intersect.