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GATE XL · 2024 · XL-T

Question 95: Evolution

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Question 95

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Consider a large population of a finch species, where both small and big beak sizes are advantageous, and an intermediate beak size is maladaptive. Over a period of 10 years, which one of the following evolutionary processes is most likely to operate on the beak size of this finch population?
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GATE XL 2024 · Paper 1

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