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The evidence is actually quite dramatic. Birds that have difficulty cracking open the seeds available to them give birth to birds that have much thicker and strong beaks. Birds that have trouble extracting seeds from large flowers or other structures give birth to birds with longer and thinner beaks. Large changes to phenotype that used to be thought to evolve only slowly over long periods turn out to happen as quick changes based on environmental inputs.



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