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Founder’s Effect Simulator

When a few individuals start a new population, they carry only a small sample of the original gene pool, so allele frequencies can shift by chance alone. Drift like this leaves small populations with less diversity and can push rare traits to high frequency. Follow allele frequencies across generations in an isolated population.

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