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    It is not the case that Random sampling (drift as process) could be understood as part of the Mendelian background process rather than as an evolutionary force.

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    • 1.Random sampling during reproduction produces allele frequency changes that are causally distinct from Mendelian transmission ratios themselves.
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    • 2.A process that systematically alters population-level outcomes beyond what Mendelian ratios predict cannot be merely background to those ratios.
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    • 3.Matthen and Ariew's causal decomposition shows drift and selection are individuated by their population-level statistical signatures, not their mechanistic substrate.
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    • 1.The background/foreground distinction in causal explanation is context-relative and pragmatic, not ontologically fixed.
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    • 2.Designating Mendelian processes as background arbitrarily privileges one causal level, as Millstein's population-level causal account of drift demonstrates.
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    • 3.If sampling error during gamete formation causally explains outcome variance, reclassifying it as background eliminates rather than resolves its explanatory role.
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    • 1.The Mendelian process — wherein organisms produce gametes and gametes produce organisms — is treated as background against which evolutionary forces are described, not as a force itself.
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    • 2.At least some types of random sampling occur during gamete formation, which is part of the Mendelian process.
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