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A finch population with heritable variation in beak size arrives on an island where only large seeds are available as a food source. describe the process of natural selection that would follow.

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Due to natural selection and heritability of fitness, birds and their offspring with heritable variations that remained on the island would quickly be reduced to only those which have a large enough beak size and are thus capable of consuming the large seeds.
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