The fourteen species of finches native to the Galápagos Islands ____, and therefore illustrate adaptive radiation
a. diverged following a mass extinction event
b. evolved from a single common ancestor
c. migrated independently from South America
d. represent a convergent evolutionary process
e. evolved from numerous distant ancestors
ANSWER: b
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