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do the Hawaiian honeycreepers provide evidence to support Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection why or why not

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Hawaiian honeycreepers do not provide evidence to support Darwin's theory of evolution.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hawaiian honeycreepers are a group of 23 species of birds, which have small differences in their beaks, but descend from the same ancestor. This ancestor ended up spreading in different regions, and generated descendants that had their beaks adapted to the food available in the region. Thus, different descendants who were born in different regions, had their morphological characteristics modified and adapted to this environment, which caused the emergence of different species. This does not support Darwin's evolutionary theory. This is because Darwin's theory is natural selection, which states that for species to evolve, individuals with unfavorable morphological characteristics must die, allowing only those with favorable characteristics to survive and this is not what happened with Hawaiian honeycreepers.

The process that happened with Hawaiian honeycreepers is called Evolutionary irradiation, which occurs in the ancestors and colonizes different regions, having descendants with different morphologies that are adapted to each region.

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