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A small group of rodents have arrived on an island in the Pacific Ocean where no rodents are naturally found. This small group may rapidly evolve into several different sub-species to take advantage of different means of survival. What term is used by evolutionary biologists to describe the rapid evolution that may occur in this situation?

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well, you did not give the a-d answer chocies but luckly for you i got a answer!
from the information i found the answer is adaptive radiation
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