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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• AlvarezsauridaeRelated: Alvarezsaurids illustrate how a theropod lineage could evolve highly specialized feeding anatomy.

• CyprinodontiformesRelated: Isolated waters have produced striking cyprinodontiform radiations, especially among pupfishes.

• Evolution of fishRelated: Repeated fish radiations show how new habitats and traits can generate diversity.

• Extinction eventRelated: Vacant niches after an extinction can enable surviving lineages to diversify.

• PupfishRelated: Closely related pupfish have diversified across distinct desert springs and water conditions.

• SticklebackRelated: Postglacial stickleback populations diversified into distinct freshwater forms.

• White-eyeRelated: Island populations of white-eyes have diversified into distinct species.

• GasterosteoideiRelated: Postglacial stickleback populations illustrate rapid diversification across habitats.

• Late Ordovician mass extinctionRelated: Surviving groups diversified as marine ecosystems recovered.

• Tree kingfisherRelated: Tree kingfishers occupy varied habitats and exploit diverse prey across their range.