Given that selection cannot favor traits that lower fitness, what might cause a population to move down from a fitness peak in Sewall Wright’s “adaptive landscape”? (Pick one answer)   A. Inverse frequency dependent selection   B. Large population size   C. Overdominant selection   D. Genetic drift   E. All of the above

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  1. Given that selection cannot favor traits that lower fitness, what might cause a population to move down from a fitness peak in Sewall Wright’s “adaptive landscape”? (Pick one answer)

      A.

    Inverse frequency dependent selection

      B.

    Large population size

      C.

    Overdominant selection

      D.

    Genetic drift

      E.

    All of the above

     
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