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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out. in Minnesota. The new study is about Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) in southwestern Nebraska.

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