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Galápagos finches

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Field guideAdaptive radiation explainedA lineage may enter a new region, acquire a key innovation, or encounter ecological space opened by environmental change or extinction. Divergent selection and reproductive isolation can then produce ecologically differentiated species. Radiations vary in speed, size, gene flow, and whether diversification rates show an early burst.