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The finches of Galapagos islands provide evidence in favour of:


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Adaptive radiation

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Retrogressive evolution

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Bio-geographic evolution

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Special creation

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Solution

The correct option is A

Adaptive radiation


There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands only a few million years ago. This process, whereby species evolve rapidly to exploit empty ecospace, is known as adaptive radiation.


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