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

10,000 Birds

Bumpus’s study was carried out in the vicinity of Providence, Rhode Island (Bumpus was at Brown University). 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.

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