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  2. Directional selection - Wikipedia

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    Bottom (Graph 3) represents disruptive selection with both extremes being favored. In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and moderate phenotypes. This genetic selection causes the allele frequency to shift toward the chosen extreme over ...

  3. Disruptive selection - Wikipedia

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    These charts depict the different types of genetic selection. On each graph, the x-axis variable is the type of phenotypic trait and the y-axis variable is the amount of organisms. Group A is the original population and Group B is the population after selection. Graph 1 shows directional selection, in which a single extreme phenotype is favored.

  4. Kin selection - Wikipedia

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    Kin selection. The co-operative behaviour of social insects like the honey bee can be explained by kin selection. Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. [1]

  5. Stabilizing selection - Wikipedia

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    Stabilizing selection. 1: directional selection: a single extreme phenotype favoured. 2, stabilizing selection: intermediate favoured over extremes. 3: disruptive selection: extremes favoured over intermediate. Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection [1] [2]) is a type of natural selection in which the ...

  6. Forum selection clause - Wikipedia

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    Revenue rule. v. t. e. In contract law, a forum selection clause (sometimes called a dispute resolution clause, choice of court clause, governing law clause, jurisdiction clause or an arbitration clause, depending upon its form) in a contract with a conflict of laws element allows the parties to agree that any disputes relating to that contract ...

  7. Group selection - Wikipedia

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    Blackcocks at the Lek watercolour and bodycolour by Archibald Thorburn, 1901. Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene. Early authors such as V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Konrad Lorenz argued that the behavior of animals could ...

  8. Balancing selection - Wikipedia

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    Balancing selection refers to a number of selective processes by which multiple alleles (different versions of a gene) are actively maintained in the gene pool of a population at frequencies larger than expected from genetic drift alone. Balancing selection is rare compared to purifying selection. [1] It can occur by various mechanisms, in ...

  9. Sexual selection in humans - Wikipedia

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    Sexual selection in humans concerns the concept of sexual selection, introduced by Charles Darwin as an element of his theory of natural selection, [1] as it affects humans. Sexual selection is a biological way one sex chooses a mate for the best reproductive success. Most compete with others of the same sex for the best mate to contribute ...