In Australia, marsupials and placental mammals have evolved to share many similar characteristics. This type of evolution may be referred to as

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  • A

    Adaptive Radiation

  • B

    Divergent Evolution

  • C

    Cyclical Evolution

  • D

    Convergent Evolution

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$A$ : Placental wolf and Tasmanian wolf (a marsupial) show convergent evolution.
$R$ : Like marsupials placental mammals in other parts of world also exhibit adaptive radiation in evolving into varieties of such placental mammals each of which appears to be similar to a corresponding marsupial.

Explain the interpretation of Charles Darwin when he observed a variety of small black birds on Galapagos Island ?
 

Analogous organs have arisen in the evolutionary process through

Process of evolution of different species in a given geographical area starting from a point and literally radiating to other areas of geography (habitats) is called.

It is not an example of Australian marsupials.