In the 1890s, the biologist Hermon Bumpus found that sparrows that had survived a Rhode Island storm were more likely to be of intermediate size than sparrows that had perished from the storm. This is most likely an example of

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Stabilizing selection is a type of natural selection that favors intermediate variants and acts against extreme phenotypes, which is consistent with the observation that sparrows of intermediate size were more likely to survive.

In the 1890s, the Biologist Hermon Bumpus Found That Sparrows