Directional selection
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selection that favors ever increasing or decreasing levels of the phenotype. Favorable mutations increase in frequency, ultimately to fixation, potentially generating selective sweeps. (Hamblin 2011). Natural selection that favours one end of a distribution of a quantitative trait. (Barrett 2011)
