Borrowing concepts from natural selection theory, we propose that trait–abundance relationships can generally correspond to one of three modes of trait selection: directional (a rectilinear ...

Silvia Cattelan, Andrea Di Nisio, Andrea Pilastro, Stabilizing selection on sperm number revealed by artificial selection and experimental evolution, Evolution, Vol. 72, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp.

Long term stabilizing selection can explain "living fossils." Amber fossils sometimes conserve ancient insect species that are very similar to their modern relatives.

Factors of evolution : the theory of stabilizing selection / by I.I. Schmalhausen ; translated by Isadore Dordick ; edited by Theodosius Dobzhansky ; with a new foreword by David B. Wake Smithsonian ...