Date: 22/9/09 08:51 pm (UTC)
Random genetic drift follows the definition of the statistical adjective random quite well as defined by the OED

'b. Statistics. Governed by or involving equal chances for each of the actual or hypothetical members of a population; (also) produced or obtained by a such a process, and therefore unpredictable in detail.'

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Most loci in a genome aren't under any strong selective pressure or purifying selection which means the chance of any single allele reaching fixation in the population is roughly equal accounting for differences in allele frequencys, variable mutation rates can alter this
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