The fourteen species of finches native to the Galápagos Islands ____, and therefore illustrate adaptive radiation.
A) diverged following a mass extinction event
B) evolved from a single common ancestor
C) migrated independently from South America
D) represent a convergent evolutionary process
E) evolved from numerous distant ancestors
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