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What is the main difference between adaptive radiation and other forms of speciation?
Adaptive radiation is a mechanism for evolution.
Adaptive radiation happens over a relatively short time.
Adaptive radiation requires a founding population.
Adaptive radiation occurs only on islands.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Adaptive radiation happens over a relatively short time.

Explanation: adaptive radiation is rapid diversification of a single lineage into many species adapted to different niches. It does not always require a founding population (it can follow extinctions or innovations), is not limited to islands, and is a pattern/process of speciation rather than just a generic "mechanism for evolution."