Apostatic selection
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Apostatic selection
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Apostatic selection is a form of negative frequency-dependent selection. It describes the survival of individual prey animals that are different from their species in a way that makes it more likely for them to be ignored by their predators. It operates on polymorphic species, species which have different forms. In apostatic selection, the common forms of a species are preyed on more than the rarer forms, giving the rare forms a selective advantage in the population. It has also been discussed t
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Process in evolutionary theory
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2023-12-03T04:00:40Z
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