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Preferred term

reproductive isolation

Definition

[Henderson's] the inability of two populations to interbreed because they are geographically isolated, or isolated from each other by differences of behaviour, mating time (or in plants maturation times of male and female sex organs), or genital morphology. This is a phase in the development of new species.