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"Darwin's finches represent one of the best examples for adaptive radiation". Comment.

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Development of different functional structures from a common ancestral form is called adaptive radiation. Darwin’s finches had common ancestors and now have 13 species of birds with different types of modified beaks according to their food habits.


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