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Name the explain the evolutionary concept represented in the illustration given below: 

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The illustration represents adaptive radiation. 

Placental animals in Australia 

  • A variety of placental mammals have evolved which appear similar to a corresponding marsupial.
  • When more than one adaptive radiation appear to have occurred in an isolated geographical area (representing different habitats), and two or more groups of unrelated animals come to resemble each other for similar mode of life or habitat, it is called convergent evolution. For example, Australian marsupials, placental mammals.


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