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Evolution
Natural selection – directional, stabilising and disruptive
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Artificial selection to obtain cows yielding higher milk output represents
Selecting for one extreme shifts the mean: directional selection.
Artificial selection to obtain cows yielding higher milk output shifts the peak in one direction, hence it is an example of directional selection. In stabilising selection, organisms with the mean value of the trait are selected. In disruptive selection, both extremes are selected.
