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Divorce Rates Tend to Be Calculated in Three Ways

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Divorce rates tend to be calculated in three ways. What are they? What are some advantages and limitations of each method?


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Genetic Bottleneck

A sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events or human activities, which leads to a decrease in genetic diversity.

Founder Effect

Genetic drift that results from a small population colonizing a new area.

Frequency-Dependent Selection

Frequency-Dependent Selection refers to an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on its frequency relative to other phenotypes or genotypes in the population.

Phenotype

A collection of visible features or attributes in an organism that emerge through the combination of its genetic makeup and environmental influences.

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