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Muller's ratchet

irreversible accumulation of deleterious mutations in the absence of genetic recombination

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genetic recombination

ZW sex-determination system

hypothetical species

Mutational meltdown

hairy-fronted muntjac

Holocene extinction

Eocene–Oligocene extinction event

Late Devonian extinction

extinction debt

human go to space

genetic erosion

Population Matters

Drosophila neotestacea

extinction event

sex-determination system

sexual reproduction

Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

decline in insect populations

decline in amphibian populations

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Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Model

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genetic determinism

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genome instability

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insertional mutagenesis

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Dollo's law of irreversibility

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classical genetics

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insertion mutation

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selective sweep

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