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from: Jim McGinn
date: 2004-02-23 15:00:00
subject: The Cause of Genetic Drif

"Peter F."  wrote 

> Other than being a concept of unpredictability 
>  there is relatively little value in "drift" 
> as an evolution theoretical concept.

It was once thought that the cause of genetic drift 
was empirical.  We now know it to be psychological: 
gambler's fallacy.

Jim
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