Question

Can human evolution be called as adaptive radiation?

Answer 1

Human evolution:

1. The evolutionary process that led to the formation of Homo sapiens as a unique species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes, is known as human evolution.
2. Adaptive radiation is not a term that can be used for human evolution.
3. This is because adaptive radiation is an evolutionary mechanism that produces new species from a single, rapidly diversifying lineage, but human evolution does not.
4. Human evolution is a long-term process that took place over a long period of time.
5. It's a good example of anagenesis (formation of a new species via a single lineage without branching).