This means that for example people don't appreciate that highly deleterious alleles can stay in a population when they are recessive because evolution has a lot more trouble acting on them when their frequence becomes very low.
I have no background in science and I understood this when I was ten (?) and my mother told me about Christopher Nance and answered my followup questions. I suspect people here largely do understand this.
Can you please explain more difficult things? I made this thread to try and pinpoint my confusion and ignorance.
Who is Christopher Nance?
Let's refine each other's understanding of biological evolution, as encapsulated as best we can manage in a short comment.
It's time to be lesswrong. Starting with me.