Nonadaptive factors may be important in evolutionary change. Genetic hitchhiking, the change in frequency of neutral or nearly neutral alleles because of association with selected loci, is of potential significance for loci that are tightly linked or loci in highly inbred or asexual organisms.
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Philip W. Hedrick (1982) studied this question.
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