The biologist Michael Lynch has a hypothesis about the role of effective population size in influencing the evolution mutation rates.Describe this hypothesis,with particular attention to the roles of natural selection and genetic drift,and how it can explain the pattern shown in the accompanying figure.

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The biologist Michael Lynch has a hypothesis about the role of effective population size in influencing the evolution mutation rates.Describe this hypothesis,with particular attention to the roles of natural selection and genetic drift,and how it can explain the pattern shown in the accompanying figure.
The biologist Michael Lynch has a hypothesis about the role of effective population size in influencing the evolution mutation rates.Describe this hypothesis,with particular attention to the roles of natural selection and genetic drift,and how it can explain the pattern shown in the accompanying figure.