Positive selection
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The retention of mutations that benefit an organism; also referred to as Darwinian selection. (Hardison 2003).Positive selection (also known as Darwinian selection or directional selection if it occurs on a quantitative trait) is the spread to fixation of an allele that increases the fitness of individuals. (Hurst 2009)
