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The 70 pages that link to Genetic drift, each with the reason it gives.

• Habitat fragmentationRelated: Isolation and small population size can accelerate genetic divergence and loss of variation.

• Ancient DNARelated: Drift can alter ancient population genomes independently of migration or natural selection.

• Population geneticsRelated: It changes variation without favoring alleles for their effects on fitness.

• Human evolutionRelated: Small ancestral populations made chance losses and gains of genetic variants consequential.

• MutationRelated: Drift can spread or eliminate mutations regardless of their effects.

• EvolutionRelated: It changes populations by chance, especially when population sizes are small.

• Evolutionary biologyRelated: It shows how populations evolve through chance rather than adaptive advantage.

• Genetic diversityRelated: Random sampling can remove variants and reduce diversity within populations.

• HomininRelated: Chance evolution can shape small hominin populations alongside selection.

• SpeciesRelated: It can drive divergence between isolated populations without adaptive differences.

• Inbreeding depressionRelated: It can increase relatedness and harmful-variant frequencies, while inbreeding depression names the resulting fitness loss.

• Allele frequencyRelated: Sampling chance can shift frequencies, especially in small populations.

• Conservation geneticsRelated: Drift can rapidly remove variation from small conservation populations.

• Modern synthesisRelated: The synthesis recognized chance, alongside selection, as a cause of allele-frequency change.

• Ex situ conservationRelated: Small captive populations can lose genetic diversity through chance alone.

• Linkage disequilibriumRelated: Drift can generate allele associations, especially after population bottlenecks.

• ConsanguinityRelated: A variant's prevalence can rise through chance, not only through consanguineous unions.

• Common descentRelated: Drift can make descendant populations genetically different without adaptive causes.

• SpeciationRelated: Drift can drive populations apart, especially after a small group becomes isolated.

• Population bottleneckRelated: Drift intensifies when a bottleneck leaves few individuals to pass on alleles.

• Darwin's finchesRelated: It can alter finch populations independently of selection on beaks.

• Genetic variationRelated: Drift can alter variation independently of whether variants improve survival or reproduction.

• Minimum viable populationRelated: Small populations lose genetic variation faster, potentially reducing future persistence.

• Endemic speciesRelated: Small isolated populations often experience drift as they diverge from their ancestors.

• Human genetic variationRelated: Chance alone can alter variation even when variants confer no advantage.

• Allopatric speciationRelated: After separation, chance can push isolated populations onto different evolutionary paths.

• HaplotypeRelated: Drift can raise or eliminate haplotypes independently of their effects on fitness.

• Hardy–Weinberg principleRelated: Drift violates the idealized conditions and can move populations away from equilibrium.

• Molecular evolutionRelated: Drift can fix or eliminate sequence variants independently of their effects on fitness.

• Genetic ancestryRelated: Drift can make related populations genetically distinct without new migration or selection.

• Genetic genealogyRelated: Drift can make ancestry estimates and regional comparisons differ among populations.

• HeterozygosityRelated: Drift can eliminate alleles and reduce heterozygosity over generations.

• Cattle breedRelated: Founder effects and small herds can alter breed genetics independently of selection.

• Neutral theory of molecular evolutionRelated: Drift can fix neutral mutations even when they provide no selective advantage.

• Clonal evolutionRelated: Chance can alter clone frequencies even when variants confer no selective advantage.

• Extinction vortexRelated: Drift removes genetic variation that could help a declining population adapt.

• Genetic loadRelated: Drift can raise harmful alleles in frequency, especially when selection is weak.

• VestigialityRelated: Drift can alter traits that provide little advantage or disadvantage.

• Coalescent theoryRelated: Drift creates the random ancestry that coalescent models describe backward in time.

• HeteroplasmyRelated: Chance replication and partitioning can shift mitochondrial variant proportions within cell lineages.

• PhylogeographyRelated: Drift can create geographic genetic differences without requiring a major historical barrier.

• Viral evolutionRelated: Chance bottlenecks can shift viral variant frequencies even when variants have no fitness advantage.

• Mitochondrial EveRelated: Chance extinction of maternal lines helps reduce many ancient lines to one surviving lineage.

• OrthogenesisRelated: It demonstrates that evolutionary change can lack any inherent directional tendency.

• Animal evolutionRelated: It can shape animal populations even when a trait offers no selective advantage.

• Muller’s ratchetRelated: Drift can eliminate the least-loaded class even when its members have higher fitness.

• MutationismRelated: It shows that mutations may spread or disappear without being favored by selection.

• Evolutionary theoryRelated: It changes populations without favoring traits for their effects on fitness.

• Biological anthropologyRelated: It can shape human genetic variation independently of adaptation.

• Divergent evolutionRelated: Chance can amplify differences between separated populations even without contrasting selection.