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    Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...
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    identified it as a type of natural selection along with stabilizing selection and disruptive selection. These types of selection also operate by favoring a specific...
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  • idea of stabilizing selection is that of the requirement that organisms function adequately in their environment. Thus, where stabilizing selection acts...
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    "Stabilizing selection and its place among factors of evolution" in 1941 and a monograph Factors of Evolution: The Theory of Stabilizing Selection in...
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    acts, by the unit of selection, or by the resource being competed for. Selection has different effects on traits. Stabilizing selection acts to hold a trait...
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  • the effects of stabilizing selection as it may be "an important counter force against the evolution of modularity". Stabilizing selection, if ubiquitously...
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  • purging Koinophilia Mutation–selection balance Stabilizing selection Loewe L (2008). "Negative selection". Nature Education. 1 (1): 59. Tien NS, Sabelis...
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    and also show that Darwin did not see the role of natural selection in stabilizing selection: When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety...
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    mistakenly declared as an absence of evolution, but they are examples of stabilizing selection, which is an evolutionary process—and perhaps the dominant process...
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    directional selection. In directional selection, a single phenotypic trait is driven by selection toward fixation in a population. In contrast, in stabilizing selection...
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    Disruptive selection. Character displacement Balancing selection Directional selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Sympatric...
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  • evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis...
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    Evolution (redirect from Mutation-selection)
    (November 1979). "Excursions along the Interface between Disruptive and Stabilizing Selection". Genetics. 93 (3): 773–795. doi:10.1093/genetics/93.3.773. PMC 1214112...
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  • with most polymorphisms. Directional selection Disruptive selection Stabilizing selection Fluctuating selection Charlesworth, Deborah; Willis, John H...
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    natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation (directional selection) and species constancy or stasis (stabilizing selection) in...
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  • generation. When the relationship is quadratic, selection may be stabilizing or disruptive. Stabilizing selection reduces variation in a trait within a population...
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  • environmental pressures to change course. This phenomenon, which he calls "stabilizing selection," puts genes and environment on a par in secondary importance compared...
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    known as stabilizing selection. Researchers hypothesize that female selection rather than predator avoidance has accounted for this stabilizing effect....
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    mechanisms which have been suggested include: habitat tracking, stabilizing selection, the Stenseth-Maynard Smith stability hypothesis, constraints imposed...
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  • wisdom that civilization has been a static environment which imposed stabilizing selection on humans, Cochran, along with like-minded anthropologists such...
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    it is likely that this stability has either been maintained by stabilizing selection or that cannibalism is neutrally evolving. Cannibalistic behaviors...
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  • species comes to fit its surroundings better and better, resulting in stabilizing selection. On the other hand, it may happen that changes in the environment...
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    theory – species – speciation – species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – symbiogenesis...
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    jungle crows as predators. Interestingly, predation might act as a stabilizing selection pressure acting against the exaggeration and excessive evolution/propagation...
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  • genetic variation underlying such traits is governed by stabilizing selection, in which natural selection acts to hold the population close to an optimal phenotype...
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  • explanations for this preference. Worthham, et al. (2018) propose that stabilizing selection (preference for people with normal appearances) may be responsible...
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    selection Directional selection Balancing selection Disruptive selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Haldane, J. B. S.;...
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  • Schmalhausen, I.I. (1949) "Factors of evolution: The theory of stabilizing selection." Philadelphia, Blackiston. Dobzhansky, T. (1970) "Genetics of the...
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  • S2CID 40390753 B. S. Grant; L. E. Mettler (1969), "Disruptive and stabilizing selection on the" escape" behavior of Drosophila melanogaster", Genetics,...
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  • either newly evolved during the Pleistocene, or were maintained by stabilizing selection during the Pleistocene. Evolutionary psychology, therefore, proposes...
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