darwin observed that a large see bird on the galappagos islands, called cormorant, could not fly, but the same bird on the mainland could. What hypothesis did he make from this discovery?

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darwin observed that a large see bird on the galappagos islands, called cormorant, could not fly, but the same bird on the mainland could. What hypothesis did he make from this discovery?

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