Biology/selection nd evolution
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what is stabilizing selection and disruptive selection....how do they differ from each other??
Consider birth weight in human babies. We can construct a curve with the heaviest babies at one end and the lightest in the middle. Stabilizing selection favors the weights in the middle range. That is the mortality rate occurs most often at the extremes. Suppose the conditions change so that the lighter weights are favored. This is disruptive selection.
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Walter Hintz
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Science teacher for over 50 years. MSc. in biology. I can answer questions in general biology, zoology, botany, anatomy and physiology and biochemistry.
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I have a MSc in biology and have been a science teacher for over 50 years. At present I am a faculty member at a college and a science consultant at seven catholic schools.
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Momentum-The Journal of the Catholic Education Association
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