Talk:Apostatic selection

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Apostatic selection occurs when predators concentrate disproportionately on the common morphological varieties of non-mimetic polymorphic prey species that they are familiar with instead of the rarer forms of the species that occur in their habitat. This has been tested in 14 experiments by presenting populations of green and brown lard-and-flour "baits" to inexperienced wild passerine birds in their normal surroundings. In seven experiments a 9 green : 1 brown population was presented for a number of days, followed by a 1 green : 9 brown population for a similar period. in the remaining seven experiments the populations were presented in the reverse order. The birds often had strong "natural" colour preferences (for example, blackbirds and songthrushes preferred browns) which were not caused by the relative conspicuousness of the two colours. The data within most of the experiments were very heterogeneous, but in every experiment there was good evidence that the birds tended to concentrate on the common colour. The consistency of the replicated experiements gives strong reason to believe that apostatic selection is a widespread phenomenon among avian predators, and provides an explanation for many of the non-mimetic colour and pattern polymorphisms found among their prey.

-- Dalbury^(Talk) 02:21, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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With such a short article, Copy editing is impossible. As a result I removed the template untill the article is expandedEagle (talk) (desk) 20:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)