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    It is not the case that Reisman and Forber's experiment may not demonstrate that drift is a cause, but only that population size is a causal factor of evolutionary change

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    • 1.It is unclear whether drift itself is being manipulated in Dobzhansky and Pavlovsky's (1957) experiments, or merely population size
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    • 2.Population size does not appear to be a process
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    • 3.Reisman and Forber rely on Woodward's interventionist account, which requires manipulation of a variable
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