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  4. The classical example of adaptive radiation in development of new species is

Q. The classical example of adaptive radiation in development of new species is

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Adaptive radiation is the evolutionary diversification from a single ancestral (prototype) population of descendant population into more and more numerous adaptive zones and ecological niches. It may involve both Anagenesis and cladogenesis. The examples of adaptive radiations are Darwin finches of Galapagos islands, Australian marsupials and limbs of mammals.