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"Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds."
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"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food."

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply."

"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country."
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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."

"Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals."

"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."

"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."

"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."

"Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools."
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