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Which best describes adaptive radiation

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Biodiversity resulting from few ancestors

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The answer is; Biodiversity resulting from few ancestors

Adaptive radiation occurs when a population is subjected to a large natural environment with spatial ecological variations. The parts of the population in the different ecologies begin to adapt to their local environments. Due to non-random mating across the large populations, this causes the different populations from the large population to speciate within their local environments. They, therefore, diverge to different species sharing a common ancestor.


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