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The 62 pages that link to Adaptive radiation, each with the reason it gives.

• Convergent evolutionCompared with: It describes divergence among descendants, unlike convergence between separate lineages.

• BiogeographyRelated: Colonists reaching empty islands, like Darwin's finches, radiate into unoccupied niches.

• OmnivoryRelated: Changes in feeding habits, including omnivory, can open new ecological opportunities.

• EndemismRelated: Radiations on isolated islands often generate multiple locally restricted species.

• PaleogeneNarrower topic: It describes how several mammal groups diversified after the K–Pg extinction.

• HomininRelated: Hominin history includes repeated diversification into distinct species and populations.

• Founder effectRelated: Founder populations can establish isolated lineages that later diversify.

• BeakRelated: Diversifying food sources can drive rapid evolution of different beak shapes.

• Late CretaceousRelated: Surviving groups diversified after many Late Cretaceous competitors disappeared.

• Insect metamorphosisRelated: Metamorphosis has been linked to insect diversification by separating juvenile and adult resource use.

• Modern synthesisRelated: It illustrates how inherited variation and selection can produce diverse forms.

• AdaptationNarrower topic: Different environments can favor divergent adaptations within a single ancestral lineage.

• GradualismBroader topic: It shows how evolutionary change can be uneven in pace rather than uniformly gradual.

• Darwin's finchesNarrower topic: The finches' ecological and morphological diversity exemplifies this pattern.

• Host plantRelated: Insect lineages can diversify as descendants specialize on different host plants.

• Endemic speciesRelated: A colonizing lineage can diversify into several species confined to one region.

• Evolution of mammalsRelated: Mammals diversified into many body forms and niches after major ecological disruptions.

• MyrmecophagyCompared with: Repeated myrmecophagy is convergence across lineages, not diversification from one ant-eating ancestor.

• K–Pg boundaryRelated: Surviving groups diversified as the extinction reorganized available habitats and resources.

• Living fossilCompared with: It contrasts with the apparent morphological conservatism associated with living fossils.

• Island gigantismRelated: Island lineages can diversify into large-bodied forms as new niches become available.

• LemurRelated: Lemurs diversified into varied diets, body sizes, and activity patterns on the island.

• Mosaic evolutionCompared with: It concerns diversification among lineages, rather than unequal change among traits within a lineage.

• Pharyngeal teethRelated: Differences in pharyngeal teeth can accompany dietary diversification among fish lineages.

• Oceanic islandRelated: Island habitats can promote rapid diversification from a small number of colonizing ancestors.

• FeliformiaRelated: Feliform families occupy varied niches, raising questions about when and how that diversity arose.

• Cape Floristic RegionNarrower topic: Rapid diversification helps account for the region’s many specialized plant lineages.

• Evolutionary taxonomyRelated: Divergent adaptations can make degree of evolutionary change central to grouping decisions.

• EutheriaRelated: Placental lineages expanded into many ecological roles after major ecological openings.

• Lake MalawiRelated: Lake Malawi cichlids diversified into many forms with distinct diets and habitats.

• Chicxulub impactRelated: Extinction opened ecological opportunities that surviving mammals and birds later diversified to exploit.

• PercomorphaRelated: Repeated radiations helped produce the exceptional ecological and morphological diversity of percomorphs.

• Animal evolutionRelated: New habitats and ecological opportunities can accelerate animal diversification.

• CichlidRelated: Cichlid lineages have diversified into many feeding and habitat niches, especially in African lakes.

• CreodontaRelated: Creodonts diversified into varied body sizes and predatory roles over their long history.

• Extinction selectivityRelated: Surviving groups may diversify into ecological roles left open by extinction.

• Hawaiian honeycreeperNarrower topic: Honeycreepers evolved into many forms occupying distinct Hawaiian habitats and food niches.

• AmphisbaeniaRelated: Differences in skull form and habitat illuminate ecological diversification within the group.

• NeornithesRelated: It describes the expansion of bird lineages into diverse habitats after the end-Cretaceous extinction.

• New Zealand biogeographyRelated: Radiations help explain the variety of forms produced by some lineages in New Zealand.

• Parallel evolutionCompared with: It concerns diversification from common ancestry, not repeated evolution of similar traits.

• Three-spined sticklebackNarrower topic: Stickleback populations diversified as they adapted to distinct marine and freshwater environments.

• History of lifeRelated: It explains rapid expansions of diversity after new habitats or opportunities arise.

• CrossbillRelated: Crossbill populations have diversified in association with different conifer seed resources.

• Lord Howe IslandRelated: The island’s isolation created conditions for some lineages to evolve distinctive forms.

• MacaronesiaRelated: Island habitats can promote diversification from a small number of colonizing ancestors.

• Mascarene IslandsRelated: It helps explain how colonizing lineages diversified in isolated island habitats.

• CampanulaceaeNarrower topic: Hawaiian lobelioids diversified into varied forms and habitats after colonizing the islands.

• Divergent evolutionBroader topic: It is a striking form of divergence across multiple niches.

• Galápagos tortoiseRelated: It describes how tortoise populations diversified across islands and habitats.