The fourteen species of finch native to the Galapagos Islands

a. were victims of a mass extinction there
b. evolved from a single common ancestor
c. migrated in waves from South America
d. evolved after a mass extinction of birds that previously lived in the islands
e. were victims of a mass extinction there


B

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