/channels/taxonomy/term/30201/all en /channels/channels/news/how-does-one-species-become-many-353924 <p>Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species – that is, an “adaptive radiation” – is the result of each species adapting to a different environment. Yet formal tests of this hypothesis have been elusive owing to the difficulty of firmly establishing the relationship between species traits and evolutionary “fitness” for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.</p> Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:39:45 +0000 webfull 196195 at /channels