A) adaptive radiation
B) seasonal migration
C) brood parasitism
D) connecting links
Correct Answer: A
Solution :
Adaptive radiation represents evolution of new forms in several directions from the common an cestral type. In 1831, Darwin got an opportunity to travel by H M S Beagle for a voyage of world exploration. Beagle sailed to the Galapagos Islands, here Darwin found living laboratory of evolution. The common birds of Galapagos Islands, the finches were markedly different from the finches of mate land. The closely related species of finches had beaks of different shapes and sizes and adapted for feeding on completely different diet showing adaptive radiation. The transitional fossil forms, which show characteristic of two different groups of living animals arc called connecting links, eg, Archaeopteryx, Seymouria, etc.
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