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11 years ago
What is a population? What is a species? Why are scholars of evolution more interested in population genetics than in how inheritance works within individual families?
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simple, because evolution works at the population level, not the individual level. if you want to know about individual inheritance, talk to a geneticist, not an evolutionary biologist.

population: group of creatures
species: group of creatures capable of reproducing fertile offspring.
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