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Posted: Mar. 27 2009,20:49

Quote (Henry J @ Mar. 27 2009,13:28)

But wouldn't recombination by itself continually reduce the amount of diversity in the gene pool, and eventually producing a deficit of it?

Henry

Both genetic drift and natural selection reduce variation, but I wouldn't think it is primarily the choice of mutation modality that affects that.

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