> genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations Not sure that's true. Natural selection is not the o

> genes that don't confer any particular advantage tend to peter out when inserted into large populations Not sure that's true. Natural selection is not the only force driving evolution. Neutral and nearly neutral (slightly deleterious) alleles can be fixed in a population by random genetic drift. Source: https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-importance-of-random-genetic-drift.html https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-importance-of-rando...