Divisions within Christian religion were initiated by Martin Luther during the 1500's.
Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, and a religious reformer who initiated the Protestant Reformation that occurs during the 1500's. Martin Luther stood against many practices and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. He also instigated a group that recreated some basic principles of Christian and led in the separation of western Christianity between the new protestant traditions (such as the Anglican communion, Anabaptists, Lutheranism), and Roman Catholicism.
The answer is to fill different niches.
<span>Adaptive radiation is the process of development of new forms
of organisms from an ancestral species. <u>When an environment changes or some new
niches open, speciation from the ancestral species occurs. </u>New species have morphological and
physiological adaptations which allow them to exploit a whole range of
divergent environment.</span>
