populations
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Past forced contact with outsiders brought trauma, including disease outbreaks that devastated Indigenous populations lacking immunity.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The species had previously existed as two separated populations in northern England and Kent, before declining to a handful of plants across three sites in Kent.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
The Japanese genome study identified 44 archaic DNA regions still present in modern Japanese populations, many of them unique to East Asians.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
Granted, I wouldn’t say that nobody cares about what Jackson did or Rowling is committed to doing, whether that harm befalls a few people or impacts entire populations.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Genes that produce fitness become gradually overrepresented in populations through the selection of phenotypes, thereby allowing organisms to become more and more adapted to their environments.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
