Answer the following:
This spectacular animal is a Lesser Bird of Paradise, Paradisea minor, from the highlands of Papua New Guinea. In the context of various evolutionary phenomena, why do you suppose:
(a) This bird is confined to New Guinea and two nearby islands? Why would you not expect to find it in the mountains of Borneo? Explain in detail.
(b) This spectacular tail presumably attracts predators; why hasn't natural selection acted to reduce it or camouflage it? Explain in detail.
Evolution is change in the heritable qualities of organism populaces over progressive ages that is successive generation. These qualities are the outflows (expression) of genes that are given from parent to offspring during propagation or reproduction. Natural selection plays a major role in evolution.
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