We are organizing a symposium on "The completion of speciation: coupling,
persistence and the micro-macro link" at the 3rd Joint Congress on
Evolutionary Biology <https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/> (July 26-30,
2024, Montreal, Canada) and would like to encourage you to submit an
abstract.

Registration and abstract submission are open now.

***Note that 1 May is the deadline for talk submissions***

The focus of the symposium will be on integration. Speciation is central 
to evolutionary biology. However, major issues remain unresolved 
concerning the evolution of strong and robust reproductive isolation 
that leads to the persistence of new lineages over macroevolutionary 
time scales. Completion of speciation usually involves the coincidence 
of multiple barriers to gene exchange but many processes can generate 
this coupling and their contributions are not well understood. Some 
types of barrier might be critical for lineage persistence: perhaps 
intrinsic barriers are critical or strong assortative mating is needed 
to allow coexistence, for example. A wide range of approaches to these 
issues is needed, ideally covering a diversity of taxa. Therefore, this 
symposium will welcome contributions from all areas of evolutionary 
biology, fostering interactions among subfields in order to understand 
the evolution of strong reproductive isolation and the persistence of 
lineages across micro to macroevolutionary scales.

Please distribute this information to your networks. We aim for a wide 
diversity of contributors to the symposium across all dimensions, 
including gender, nationality, career stage and specialist field.

Roger Butlin (r.k.butlin@shef.ac.uk) and Jonna Kulmuni (j.k.kulmuni@uva.nl)

Roger Butlin <r.k.butlin@sheffield.ac.uk>

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