My next post on Gillespie's chapter in Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies is going to cover "genetic draft." I don't know when I'll get to it, so I'll point to Robert Skipper's post on the topic from six months ago. Yes, selection is proximately stochastic. Like this.
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The idea of stochastic training wheels sounds a bit scary, but I am alluding to the series of posts on stochastic dynamics adapted from chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies by John
I have spoken of the probability of extinction and the rate of substitution once past extinction, but now to something more prosaic,