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What do you think accounts for such a large amount of genetic variation within the human population?
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What do you think accounts for such a large amount of genetic variation within the human population?

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In humans, the main cause is genetic drift. Serial founder effects and past small population size (increasing the likelihood of genetic drift) may have had an important influence in neutral differences between populations.
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