Types of Natural Selection: Disruptive Selection

Types of Natural Selection

In natural selection, disruptive selection selects against the average individual in a population. Typically, this type of population would have phenotypes (individuals with groups of traits) at both extremes, but very few in the middle. As the rarest of the three types of natural selection, disruptive selection can cause species lines to diverge. Basically, it … Read more

Scientific Principle — Definition & Examples

Scientific Principle — Definition & Examples

The terms scientists use to describe what they study can seem arbitrary. It may seem as though the words they use are only words with nothing else to them. But studying the terms scientists use to describe various phenomena lets you better understand the meaning behind them. Newton’s law of universal gravitation demonstrates the universalizable, … Read more