Meaning Of The Word Adaptive radiation
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Adaptive radiation Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Adaptive radiation?
adaptive radiation in American English
the dispersal of, and adaptation to new environments by, a line of animals or plants, resulting in the evolution of divergent forms, often new species, specialized for surviving in the new habitats noun: the diversification of an ancestral group of organisms into a variety of related forms specialized to fit different environments or ways of life, each often further diversifying into more specialized types adaptive radiation in British English noun: evolution of a number of divergent species from a common ancestor, each species becoming adapted to occupy a different environment. This type of evolution occurred in the Tertiary manuals and the Mesozoic reptiles |
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