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  1. 1889-1988. US geneticist and statistician.
  2. During the 1920s he helped modernize Charles
  3. Darwin's theory of evolution, using
  4. statistics to model the behaviour of
  5. populations of genes. Wright's work on
  6. genetic drift centred on a phenomenon
  7. occurring in small isolated colonies where
  8. the chance disappearance of some types of
  9. gene leads to evolution without the influence
  10. of natural selection.
  11.