1. Could human populations change by the process of genetic drift? Why or why not? 2. How is genetic drift different from natural selection? 3. Have humans had any natural selection pressures in their evolutionary history? What could some of these pressures have been, and how did they change our species?
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Genetic drift is a mechanism of evolution that causes random changes in population allele frequencies. This can occur when the population is small, and chance events cause certain genes to become more common while others become less common or disappear entirely. Show more…
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