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Disruptive selection favours:

Disruptive or diversifying selection favors both extremes over intermediate, increasing variance and potentially creating bimodal distribution. Example finches specializing on large and small seeds when intermediate seeds scarce. If hybrids have low fitness, reproductive isolation may evolve promoting sympatric divergence. This maintains polymorphism and can lead to adaptive radiation. Hence Extreme traits are favored, opposite to stabilizing selection maintaining mean. This concept integrates genetics, ecology and molecular evidence, frequently tested in NEET, GATE and CSIR-NET, highlighting

Ref: Campbell Biology, Evolution Chapters, Selection Types.

Runaway selection can lead to traits that:

Reduce survival fitness reflects key principle in quiz on sexual selection + pyqs, where evolutionary mechanisms shape genetic variation and adaptation. In this context, Reduce survival fitness aligns with experimental and theoretical evidence from population genetics, behavioral ecology and molecular phylogeny. Textbooks like Campbell Biology, Futuyma Evolution and Hartl Principles illustrate supporting data. Understanding why Reduce survival fitness fits helps integrate natural selection,

Ref: Andersson, Sexual Selection, Princeton, Mate Choice and Good Genes.