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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. Thus, there are two samples, “the population at large” (from the mist netting) and “road kills” from those collected dead on the road.

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