Humans have come a long way as the most dominant species on Earth, largely due to sophisticated adaptations, ingenuity, and ...

Aa Aa Aa Natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow are the mechanisms that cause changes in allele frequencies over time. When one or more of these forces are acting in a population ...

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The change in gene mutation frequencies within a new, small, rapidly expanding population is called “random genetic drift,” and it—not inbreeding or natural selection—is the major reason ...

And more recently, natural selection (genetic changes driven by adaptation) and genetic drift (genetic changes that are random) likely contributed to this diversity. The research documented ...

The spread of light skin did not occur in a smooth, linear fashion but rather through waves influenced by migration, genetic drift, and localized selection. Some groups retained darker skin for ...