"Name And Address Supplied"
 wrote in
message news:cb7rtc$mj2$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> "Perplexed in Peoria"  wrote
in message
news:...
> > "Anon." 
wrote in message
> > news:cb2fdq$21bh$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> > > But it is - in finite populations, you get an excess of homozygotes,
as
> > > any student of population genetics should know.
> >
> > Dooohh!  Ignore my other post.  Reality gives an excess of
heterozygotes.
> > The Hardy-Weinberg "law" gives an excess of homozygotes.
> >
>
> To clarify, are we assuming no selfing here? If not, I'm struggling to
> see why you get the result that you do.

Whoops, I was confused as to whether I was responding to NAS or BOH.
I'll watch for BOH's answer as to why finite populations affect
HW in his response to Bill Hunt.
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