Question

The 14 different species of finches in the galapagos islands originated from a single ancestral species. what is it about these islands that is responsible for the diversity of finch species?

Answer 1

These islands have different ecologies and most are not connected to each other by landmass. Therefore, the organism adapt to each of the different ecologies on their islands. These populations were physically separated due to lack of connection to each other and would not breed randomly. They therefore formed different species by allopatric speciation.