Would you expect a honeycreeper species that lives only on the island of Hawaii to have evolved before or after a honeycreeper species that lives on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu? Explain your answer.

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Malaki Navarro

22 February, 11:24

Would you expect a honeycreeper species that lives only on the island of Hawaii to have evolved before or after a honeycreeper species that lives on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu? Explain your answer.

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Joe Garrett · Answer 1

The honey-creepers of Hawaii were evolved later.

Explanation:

The Hawaiian honey-creepers were evolved after the Hawaii, Maui and Oahuian honey-creeper. The research work conducted by Michi Horfeiter of York University involved the study of finches that are the origin of honey-creepers and their evolution on the island of Hawaii.

As this island has a huge number of diversities among the honey-creeper family the researchers found their evolution occurring after the evolution of them in the Maui, Hawaii and Oahu island. This process of large bursting evolution is known as radiation. This radiation is behind their evolution.