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In this chapter, we shall study the intimately related processes of inbreeding and random genetic drift. Inbreeding is of great importance in the empirical investigation of genetic mechanisms and in animal and plant breeding. As discussed in Chap. 1, random drift has an essential rôle in Wright’s (1931, 1977) shifting-balance theory of evolution and a predominant one in the neutral theory of Kimura (1968, 1971) and of King and Jukes (1969).
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Nagylaki, T. (1992). Inbreeding and Random Drift. In: Introduction to Theoretical Population Genetics. Biomathematics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76214-7_9
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