Evolutionary radiation — the rapid explosion of new species from a single lineage — is triggered by three mechanisms: specialisation into narrow parameters, colonisation of a new realised niche, and adaptation to new conditions. The pattern mirrors how markets, technologies, and ideas bloom into diversity fastest when you combine pressure to specialise, access to empty territory, and a forcing function to adapt. Narrowness plus frontier plus change equals a Cambrian explosion.
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