​The Emergence of Hundreds of Hawaiian Honeycreeper Species from a Single

question 2

Multiple Choice

​The emergence of hundreds of Hawaiian honeycreeper species from a single flock introduced to this island archipelago millions of years ago is an example of ____.

• A) ​behavioral isolation
• B) ​morphological convergence
• C) ​cladistics
• D) ​adaptive radiation
• E) ​sympatric speciation

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