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    The Causal Process Account evaluates indiscriminate vs. d... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Founders of a new population can constitute an indiscriminate sample of the whole original population even if they all originate from the geographic edge of that population

    The Causal Process Account evaluates indiscriminate vs. discriminate sampling only with respect to heritable variations

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    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

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