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

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

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

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.