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    In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms,...
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    their environment, they are termed adaptive radiations. Perhaps the most familiar example of an evolutionary radiation is that of placental mammals immediately...
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  • species boundaries. Adaptive radiation Species complex Ecological speciation Gittenberger, E. (1991-08-01). "What about non-adaptive radiation?". Biological...
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    diverged to occupy different ecological niches (a process called adaptive radiation) and how sticklebacks have coevolved with their parasites. Most eco-evolutionary...
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    Mustelinae. Mustelid species diversity is often attributed to an adaptive radiation coinciding with the mid-Miocene climate transition. Contrary to expectations...
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    colonize island archipelagos exhibit a specific property known as adaptive radiation. In this process, a species that arrives on a group of islands rapidly...
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    different habitats of different islands) is key to the process of adaptive radiation "Class of 1983". Columbia College Report. Retrieved 2022-08-13. Lenski...
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    other finch. Their great morphological diversity is the result of adaptive radiation in an insular environment. Many have been driven to extinction since...
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    alliance provides a convincing natural case study in evolution by adaptive radiation, with the greensword representing one extreme of the genus' plasticity...
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    anole lizards. Anolis lizards are some of the best examples of both adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. Populations of lizards on isolated islands...
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    particle radiation consists of particles of non-zero rest energy, such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic...
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    alliance. Botanist P. H. Raven referred to this radiation as "the best example of adaptive radiation in plants". Species in Argyroxiphium are perennial...
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    flowering plants in the Triassic (~200 million years ago), with an adaptive radiation in the Cretaceous so rapid that Darwin called it an "abominable mystery"...
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  • suborder. Antarctic fish are best known for their uses in studying adaptive radiation, the ecological process that causes the rapid development of several...
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    evolutionary literature. Examples of divergence in nature are the adaptive radiation of the finches of the Galápagos, changes in mobbing behavior of the...
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    processes; the dung beetles, day geckos, and lemurs are all examples of adaptive radiation. Many bones (250 bones per square metre) of recently extinct vertebrates...
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    (shared derived characters). Brocchinia has undergone a spectacular adaptive radiation in mechanisms of nutrient capture, apparently in response to the unusually...
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    have also altered vocalizations in Darwin's finches. Species flock Adaptive radiation Island gigantism and island dwarfism Grant & Grant 2008, p. 3 Marsh...
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    living in the environment. Such clusters form through a process of adaptive radiation where a single ancestral species colonises an island that has a variety...
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    Hawaiian honeycreeper—warbler-niched-(adaptive radiation), genus H. virens–common amakihi. (See: List of adaptive radiated honeycreepers) Wilson, Eisner...
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  • only be determined after the event. Adaptive evolution in the human genome Adaptive memory Adaptive mutation Adaptive system Anti-predator adaptation Body...
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    Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods". Systematic Biology. 67...
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  • to adapt different environmental conditions and modes of life, it is called adaptive radiation. The gradual spreading of organisms with adaptive radiation...
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    one species. However, hybridization also increases the risk of guenon's adaptive advantages, that they might lose their visual patterns during the hybridization...
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    Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods". Systematic Biology. 67...
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    or a sister group to all lamniforms. Lamniformes underwent a major adaptive radiation during the Cretaceous and became prominent elements of oceanic ecosystems...
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    Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods". Systematic Biology. 67...
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    evolutionary opportunities: in its wake, many groups underwent remarkable adaptive radiation—sudden and prolific divergence into new forms and species within the...
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    "non-adaptive radiation" referring to diversification not accompanied by adaptation into various significantly different niches. Such radiations are explanation...
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    nymphs for growth and development. Their diversity is the result of an adaptive radiation on these plants, who have co-evolved defenses such as having their...
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