Exceptionally large babies increase a mother's mortality risk when giving birth and exceptionally small babies tend to die at birth or shortly afterward. For these reasons, birthweight in human babies is generally:

a) not a heritable trait.
b) subject to disruptive selection.
c) subject to stabilizing selection.
d) under even stronger selection today than it was before the development of Caeserian delivery.
e) All of the above.


Ans: c) subject to stabilizing selection.

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