Adaptive Radiation
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Adaptive radiation is the rapid formation of many new species from one ancestral species as its descendants adapt to distinct, isolated niches.
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Hawaiian honeycreepers radiated from one founder species into many species, each with a beak shaped for a different food source.
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Adaptive radiation is many speciation events from one founder species — not one species spreading unchanged into new territory.
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