When1: 1931
When2: 1978
Who: Sewall Wright [Wright, Sewall]
What: biologist
Where: England
works\ Evolution in Mendelian Populations [1931]; Evolution and the Genetics of Populations [1978]
Detail: He lived 1889 to 1988 and discovered genetic drift. Species arise randomly even within clade that has evolutionary direction {Wright's rule}. Selection changes allele frequencies.
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