The biologist Orator F . Cook coined the term'speciation'in 1906 for the splitting of lineages or " cladogenesis, " as opposed to " anagenesis " or " phyletic evolution " within lineages.
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A study of four mammalian genera : " Hyopsodus ", " Pelycodus ", " Haplomylus " ( three from the Eocene ), and " Plesiadapis " ( from the Paleocene ) found that through a large number of stratigraphic layers and specimen sampling each group exhibited, " gradual phyletic evolution, overall size increase, iterative evolution of small species, and character divergence following the origin of each new lineage ".