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Wednesday Wiki: Mullers Ratchet
This week, Muller’s Ratchet:
In evolutionary genetics, Muller’s ratchet (named after Hermann Joseph Muller) is the name given to the process by which the genomes of an asexual population accumulate deleterious mutations in an irreversible manner (hence the word ratchet). The genomes of sexual populations can easily reverse this process thanks to recombination. Continued at wikipedia