Lamotte simultaneously maintained that foundings of new populations are of considerable importance because of chance variations in the composition of the first colonizers (indiscriminate sampling)
Lamotte(as the subject of the statement about population founding)
A scientist (likely referring to Charles Lamotte or a similar researcher) who studied how new animal or plant populations develop when organisms colonize new areas.
indiscriminate sampling(Distinguishing drift from natural selection)
A sampling process that does not track fitness differences among individuals, characteristic of genetic drift
To be clear, however, there can be indiscriminate sampling processes and discriminate sampling processes occurring in the same population, even with respect to the same trait. For example, in a study of over 900 populations, biologist Maxime Lamotte acknowledged that camouflage gave appropriately colored Cepaea nemoralis land snails a selective advantage in their respective environment while simultaneously maintaining that foundings of new populations are “of considerable importance because of t