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What is the difference between natural selection and genetic drift?

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The key distinction is that in genetic drift allele frequencies change by chance, whereas in natural selection allele frequencies change by differential reproductive success. If the frequencies of traits in a population change purely by chance , then genetic drift has occurred

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