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Re:Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving by pamqzl on Sunday September 10, 2017 @05:30PM (#15214409)
Unless the statistical distribution of alleles is exactly the same (unlikely) from one generation to the next then humans would have to be evolving, wouldn't they?
Re:Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving by gwern on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:25PM (#15214618)
Genetic drift is not usually considered 'evolving' because the variants are selectively neutral. That's why finding selected variants isn't as simple as 'SNP X is 0.00001% more common in generation 2 than generation 1, case closed!' - you are looking for variants which are becoming more/less frequent than would be plausible under simple drift. Just like an experiment where you know the effect will never be exactly 0 because of chance imbalances and random noise.