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Clonal interference doesn't occur in the human species. Why?

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In a small population with a small to modest mutation rate, the establishment of a beneficial mutation is an extremely rare event so clonal interference is unlikely to occur, and the distribution of mutations that fix are simply the distribution of mutations that establish.

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