The sum of the second and third of four consecutive odd integers is 1700. What is the sum of the four numbers? Enter your answer as an integer

the answer is; biodiversity resulting from few ancestors

adaptive radiation occurs when a population is subjected to a large natural environment with spatial ecological variations. the parts of the population in the different ecologies begin to adapt to their local environments. due to non-random mating across the large populations, this causes the different populations from the large population to speciate within their local environments. they, therefore, diverge to different species sharing a common ancestor.  

total of apples - take away four

6-4 = 2

answer is 2 apples