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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."

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"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection."

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"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
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