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By adaptive radiation. The original finch emigrated to the Galapagos Islands and found many different environments and feeding opportunities per individual Island. So, under this new selection pressure and the random mutational variation all species have, many new species of finch arose on all the various Islands of the Galapagos.

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Describe how new species of Galápagos finches may have formed?

The organic substitution of these wild animals, is very environmental toward all these species. The Galapogus Islands are not very sophisticated toward these kinds of different fossil types of our future beings.


How are new species formed?

New species can arise as a result of isolation. This is where two populations of a species become geographically separated. For example, Charles Darwin described speciation of finches this way.Darwin studied the wildlife on the Galápagos Islands (a group of islands on the equator, almost 1,000 km west of Ecuador). He noticed that the finches (Songbirds) on the different islands were similar to each other.However, the finches showed wide variations in their size, beaks and claws from island to island - for example, their beaks were different depending on the local food source. Darwin concluded that, because the islands are so distant from the mainland, the finches that had arrived there in the past and had changed over time.


What island chain in south america was the sorce of many of Darwin's insights?

The species on the Galapagos Island chain formed the basis for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Though the finches on the islands all had different physiologies, Darwin eventually realized that they were not separate species, but actually all variations of the same species. This led him to conclude that organisms shared common descendants and became different species by gradually evolving new features.


What did Darwin find on his travels?

During his travels on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin observed a diverse range of species and their adaptations to different environments, particularly in the Galápagos Islands. He noted variations among species such as finches and tortoises, which led him to contemplate the ideas of natural selection and evolution. His observations of geological formations and the distribution of species also contributed to his understanding of the earth's history and biological diversity. These findings ultimately formed the basis for his groundbreaking work, "On the Origin of Species."


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What animal did Darwin watch on the galapagos island?

Charles Darwin watched and studied many animals well on the Galapagos Islands, But the most talked about is a species of bird referred to as Finches. This is the bird that led to Darwin being credited with the theory of evolution by natural selection. These finches probably descended from one type of ancestor and then, due to isolation and through chance, different climates and natural forces such as food availability and type, they evolved into thirteen different types of finches. The process of their evolution would probably have begun with immigrants from the mainland. As they dispersed to different islands, new populations would be formed. Every time these satellite populations dispersed, there would be greater difference between the individual species.


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Some species becoming extinct and new species being formed is called?

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