The emergence of hundreds of Hawaiian honeycreeper species from a single flock introduced to this island archipelago millions of years ago is an example of ____.
A) behavioral isolation
B) morphological convergence
C) cladistics
D) adaptive radiation
E) sympatric speciation

Question

​The emergence of hundreds of Hawaiian honeycreeper species from a single flock introduced to this island archipelago millions of years ago is an example of ____.
A) ​behavioral isolation
B) ​morphological convergence
C) ​cladistics
D) ​adaptive radiation
E) ​sympatric speciation

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The emergence of hundreds of Hawaiian honeycreeper species from a single flock introduced to the Hawaiian islands millions of years ago is an example of adaptive radiation, where a single ancestral species rapidly evolves into a wide variety of types to exploit different ecological niches.

​The Emergence of Hundreds of Hawaiian Honeycreeper Species from a Single

The Emergence of Hundreds of Hawaiian Honeycreeper Species from a Single