The evolution and fate of diversity under hard and soft selection.

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How genetic variation arises and persists over evolutionary time despite the depleting effects of natural selection remains a long-standing question. Here, we investigate the impacts of two extreme forms of population regulation-at the level of the total, mixed population (hard selection) and at the level of local, spatially distinct patches (soft selection)-on the emergence and fate of diversity under strong...

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