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    Biological populations reproduce, and offspring number ca... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The urn model of genetic drift has limited explanatory power because it lacks an analogue for reproduction.

    Biological populations reproduce, and offspring number can vary, which affects allele frequency change.

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    A better illustration of drift has its origins in Theodosius Dobzhansky’s (1937) discussion of Dubinin and Romaschoff’s (1932) model, which asks us to imagine an urn filled with different colored balls. If the balls are drawn from the urn without respect to color, e.g., by a person drawing balls while blindfolded, then the balls are being indiscriminately sampled (unlike discriminate sampling, where someone deliberately tries to pick balls of a certain color). If a large sample of balls is taken

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