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A species is a reproductively isolated, independent evolutionary unit which occupies a certain niche. In biology it is a taxonomic group whose members can interbreed: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. It is one of the basic units of biological classification.
The rise of a new species from an ancestor is called speciation.
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- Wikipedia entry for species
