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Population size is not what limited human adaptation; time is. A selection coefficient of half a percent works as well in a thousand people as in a million.

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  1. David Reich

    Geneticist at Harvard Medical School

    So we're talking about strong measurable selection coefficients on the order of half a percent or more in this study and all of those are going to work in small populations or large populations. It's not going to be affected by the population size.

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