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To determine: The relationship in the figure if the difference in beak shape was affected by an environmental factor and not by genetic differences.

Introduction: The theory of evolution by natural selection was proposed by Charles Darwin. According to this theory, the population should have a phenotypic variation, The phenotypic variation should be able to differentiate among the individuals in a lifetime, and the variation should be genetically transmissible further to the successive generation.

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