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A simplified example of mating behavior.

If young men wanted old women as mates their genes would be selected out, as they would have few children to pass those genes to, until negative frequency selection reduced these allele in the gene pool. Men who desire young, fertile women as mates leave many descendents that carry the genes for this trait. So, over generations the mating behavior of men is shaped. and stabilizing selection keeps this mating trait/allele at high frequency in the populations gene pool.

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