3 ms·
If the trait is completely neutral it will double every generation (until saturation is setting in). If the trait is like 10% negative then it will instead incr
by im2w1l 11y ago
If the trait is completely neutral it will double every generation (until saturation is setting in). If the trait is like 10% negative then it will instead increase by a factor of 0.9*2 = 1.8, which is still pretty quick.
Only if it is extremely negative, by more than halving amount of offspring, will it be selected out.
That's in the short term. Presumably, some sort of resistance would evolve in the long term.
- dekhn 11y agoThese are all absurdly idealized models of actual population genetics. No trait is truly neutral. At the very least, this experimentation is likely to show some interesting real-world population genetics that we can measure.