Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...

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...

"Stabilizing selection and its place among factors of evolution" in 1941 and a monograph Factors of Evolution: The Theory of Stabilizing Selection in...

idea of stabilizing selection is that of the requirement that organisms function adequately in their environment. Thus, where stabilizing selection acts...

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...

purging Koinophilia Mutation–selection balance Stabilizing selection Loewe L (2008). "Negative selection". Nature Education. 1 (1): 59. Tien NS, Sabelis...

the effects of stabilizing selection as it may be "an important counter force against the evolution of modularity". Stabilizing selection, if ubiquitously...

mistakenly declared as an absence of evolution, but they are examples of stabilizing selection, which is an evolutionary process—and perhaps the dominant process...

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...

Disruptive selection. Character displacement Balancing selection Directional selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Sympatric...

directional selection. In directional selection, a single phenotypic trait is driven by selection toward fixation in a population. In contrast, in stabilizing selection...

evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis...

(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...

with most polymorphisms. Directional selection Disruptive selection Stabilizing selection Fluctuating selection Charlesworth, Deborah; Willis, John H...

natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation (directional selection) and species constancy or stasis (stabilizing selection) in...

environmental pressures to change course. This phenomenon, which he calls "stabilizing selection," puts genes and environment on a par in secondary importance compared...

generation. When the relationship is quadratic, selection may be stabilizing or disruptive. Stabilizing selection reduces variation in a trait within a population...

known as stabilizing selection. Researchers hypothesize that female selection rather than predator avoidance has accounted for this stabilizing effect....

mechanisms which have been suggested include: habitat tracking, stabilizing selection, the Stenseth-Maynard Smith stability hypothesis, constraints imposed...

wisdom that civilization has been a static environment which imposed stabilizing selection on humans, Cochran, along with like-minded anthropologists such...

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...

theory – species – speciation – species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – symbiogenesis...

jungle crows as predators. Interestingly, predation might act as a stabilizing selection pressure acting against the exaggeration and excessive evolution/propagation...

it is likely that this stability has either been maintained by stabilizing selection or that cannibalism is neutrally evolving. Cannibalistic behaviors...

genetic variation underlying such traits is governed by stabilizing selection, in which natural selection acts to hold the population close to an optimal phenotype...

explanations for this preference. Worthham, et al. (2018) propose that stabilizing selection (preference for people with normal appearances) may be responsible...

selection Directional selection Balancing selection Disruptive selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Haldane, J. B. S.;...

Schmalhausen, I.I. (1949) "Factors of evolution: The theory of stabilizing selection." Philadelphia, Blackiston. Dobzhansky, T. (1970) "Genetics of the...

been a higher preference for tail-first births caused by strong stabilizing selection for this trait much earlier in the evolutionary history of every...

larger workers. Stabilizing selection is present to make a fixed number of workers regardless of nest size or food availability. The selection shifts toward...