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This is because due to the drought the larger seeds were more abundant while there was few small seeds so the birds with larger beaks could easily crack the larger seeds while the short beaked birds could not.

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This proves that is natural selection because of the drought there was limited seeds so the birds with smaller beaks couldn't reach the seeds in the plants and the birds with longer beaks could reach the seeds into the plants/flowers. So now that the seeds are larger and there are less seeds they need longer beaks in order to get the seeds easier.

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This proves that it was natural selection because the birds with longer beaks could more easily reach the small amounts of water, and those who didn’t ended up dying off because they were unable to get to the water to survive.

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The birds with the longer and larger beaks could survive with the changes to seed type while the birds with smaller beaks died off. ⅓ of the population decreased due to starvation.

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The birds with the longer beaks could better reach the limited amount of seeds while the shorter beaked birds would starve and end up dying.  Before the drought the seeds were 9  and 10 square meters and after the drought they were only 8 and 3 square meters.

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The drought in 1977 allowed the birds with longer beaks to survive, while the birds with shorter beaks died off. As shown in the decrease in the population when it went from 751 birds in 1976 to the year of drought where the population dropped to 186 birds at the end of 1977.

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Natural selection is the reason why the medium ground finches beak increased in size from 1976 to 1978