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. This is because natural selection favors babies with an average birth weight, as they are more likely to survive and reproduce successfully. Babies with either very low or very high birth weights have lower survival rates and may have health problems, so natural selection will act against these extremes, leading to stabilizing selection for babies with average birth weights.

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