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apostatic selection: a standalone construct

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Animal behaviour

predation that falls disproportionately on the commonest prey form, often through search images, favouring rare forms and maintaining polymorphism.

In animal behaviour, apostatic selection refers to predation that falls disproportionately on the commonest prey form, often through search images, favouring rare forms and maintaining polymorphism. This meaning comes from Bond (2007) in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.[1]

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References

Bond, A. B. (2007). The Evolution of Color Polymorphism: Crypticity, Searching Images, and Apostatic Selection. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 38(1), 489-514. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095728

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