<< Genetic drift supplies variation (hence is a special kind of evolutionary
pressure) for natural selection to either prune in or out. >>


Well said. I'd like to take it a step further.
IF both the large population, and the genetic drift
population remain under the same environmental 
conditions, then the evolutionary pressure on both
will still be the same.

So in a sense the environment gets the last word
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