Babies that are at a low birth weight are more likely to have health problems,while women will have difficulty delivering babies with high birth weight.Together this leads to ______ for babies of average birth weight.

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Stabilizing selection is a type of natural selection that favors individuals with traits that are closer to the average of the population, rather than extreme traits. In this case, babies with average birth weight will have a higher chance of survival and reproductive success than babies with either low or high birth weight. This leads to stabilizing selection, where the population is being stabilized around the average birth weight.

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