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Continuously Varying Traits Typically Show a Bell-Shaped Frequency Distribution

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Continuously varying traits typically show a bell-shaped frequency distribution. Explain why this is so; why are intermediate phenotypes more frequent than phenotypes at either end of the distribution?


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