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In 1968, Hampton Carson (1968) proposed the founder-flush-crash model, a new model of speciation, which readily lends itself to experimental testing in the laboratory (Carson 1971).
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Galiana, A., Ayala, F.J., Moya, A. (1989). Flush-Crash Experiments in Drosophila . In: Fontdevila, A. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of Transient Unstable Populations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74525-6_5
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