Asked by des

Why did the beaks in this bird population MOST LIKELY change over time?


Predators caused the change by only consuming birds with certain beak types.


Environmental changes caused the bird population to adapt through natural selection.


Natural selection caused the environment to change and the bird population to adapt.


The birds caused the change by only mating with birds that had certain beak types.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Environmental changes caused the bird population to adapt through natural selection.

Reason: when the environment (food sources, climate, habitat) changes, individuals with beak shapes better suited to the new conditions survive and reproduce more, so those beak traits become more common over generations.