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He discovered that each finch in each diffrent island had a slightly diffrent beak adapted to its particular environment. For example, a fruit eater had a stout beak to pick berries off branches and a seed eater had a short, powerful bill for crushing seeds, etc. This contributed to his theory of evolution.

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