When the Grants measured the beaks of the birds on Daphne Major after the drought, they found:

A. a large number of the birds had died as a result of the drought
B. the survivors of the drought had a larger average beak size
C. beak size is inherited, so the next generation had a larger average beak size
D. all of these


D. all of these

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