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Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by gdrift on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:17AM (#24696567)
> genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations

Not sure that's true.

Natural selection is not the only force driving evolution.

Neutral and nearly neutral (slightly deleterious) alleles can be fixed in a population by random genetic drift.

Source: https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-importance-of-rando...

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