Stabilizing Selection
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Example:
Imagine you're trying to maintain the perfect temperature in your house, not too hot and not too cold, but just right. This is similar to stabilizing selection in nature, where the "perfect" or average traits are favored and become more common, much like how you set your thermostat to keep the temperature steady. Just as you adjust your heating or cooling to avoid extremes and maintain comfort, stabilizing selection favors the average traits in a population, reducing extremes and promoting stability.
Practice Version
Stabilizing Selection: Natural selection which favors average forms of a trait, these forms become more common. Stabilizing selection. Stabilizing selection is when the average traits in a population are favored and become more common, reducing variation.