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14. What would be an example of an evolutionary bottleneck?

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Answer: excessive hunting… a forest fire

Explanation: excessive hunting leaves only 100 buffalo of an originally much larger population

A forest fire drastically reduces the population of the endangered blue chaffinch to 122 individuals

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Bottleneck is an example of a genetic drift that happens when the size of a population is severely reduced.
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