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The effective population sizeis the number of individualsin the population thatsuccessfully pass genes tothe next generation. This isusually smaller than theactual number (censusnumber) in the population.The smaller the effectivepopulation size, the faster apopulation will drift, and thefaster one of the alleles l inthe population will becomefixed.

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