In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms,...
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their environment, they are termed adaptive radiations. Perhaps the most familiar example of an evolutionary radiation is that of placental mammals immediately...
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species boundaries. Adaptive radiation Species complex Ecological speciation Gittenberger, E. (1991-08-01). "What about non-adaptive radiation?". Biological...
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diverged to occupy different ecological niches (a process called adaptive radiation) and how sticklebacks have coevolved with their parasites. Most eco-evolutionary...
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Mustelinae. Mustelid species diversity is often attributed to an adaptive radiation coinciding with the mid-Miocene climate transition. Contrary to expectations...
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colonize island archipelagos exhibit a specific property known as adaptive radiation. In this process, a species that arrives on a group of islands rapidly...
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alliance provides a convincing natural case study in evolution by adaptive radiation, with the greensword representing one extreme of the genus' plasticity...
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anole lizards. Anolis lizards are some of the best examples of both adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. Populations of lizards on isolated islands...
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other finch. Their great morphological diversity is the result of adaptive radiation in an insular environment. Many have been driven to extinction since...
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flowering plants in the Triassic (~200 million years ago), with an adaptive radiation in the Cretaceous so rapid that Darwin called it an "abominable mystery"...
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