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    Supports→Random sampling (drift as process) could be understood as part of the Mendelian background process rather than as an evolutionary force.

    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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    Evolutionary forces(as used in evolutionary biology)
    The natural processes that cause species to change over time, such as natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation.
    Gametes(as used in reproductive ethics)
    Reproductive cells (sperm and eggs) that contain genetic information and combine to create a new organism.
    Mendelian process(Sober 1984: 35)
    The background process wherein organisms produce gametes and gametes produce organisms, treated as the backdrop against which evolutionary forces are described rather than as a force itself.

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    What, then, are the statisticalist issues that random drift is entangled with? The concerns raised by Walsh, Lewens, and Ariew (2002) and Matthen and Ariew (2002) have their origins in claims made by Sober (1984) in his classic The Nature of Selection. Sober characterizes evolutionary theory as a theory of forces, with its zero-force state described by the Hardy-Weinberg equation of population genetics (see the population genetics entry for an explanation of the equation); in such a state, the

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