Fill-in: The term “____” is used to describe the evolutionar…
Fill-in: The term “____” is used to describe the evolutionary diversification of an ancestral lineage into a diverse array of descendant taxa that live in diverse habitats and fill diverse ecological niches. Spell carefully. An example showing this kind of macroevolutionary process in cichlid fishes is illustrated below. With just one lake in Africa, this process has led to the evolution of 240 separate species of cichlid fish species!