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What is stabilizing selection?


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Stabilizing selection:

  1. Stabilizing selection is a type of natural selection.
  2. The population mean stabilizes and mainly favours the intermediate variants.
  3. Disruptive selection is the opposite of stabilizing selection.
  4. This type of selection removes the more severe phenotypes.

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