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In a forest, a tree falls on a swamp and kills the worm population reducing the population by half. The remaining population is characterized by a remarkable reduction in genetic diversity. Which mechanism of evolution is exhibited here?

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User Fridojet
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population bottle neck. or genetic drift.
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