(May 2, 2018 at 2:57 pm)alpha male Wrote:(May 2, 2018 at 2:51 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: How about "Changes in allele frequencies in populations over time, as directed by natural selection." That's still a pretty concise, neat sentence.
But not accurate. Genetic drift is also a mechanism of change, and has been gaining in importance lately.
Not sure what you're trying to get at by bringing that up. Is it simply the fact that not every mutation is inherited by the next generation? If so, I don't believe that is any claim of evolution theory.