Genetic drift (allelic drift or the Wright effect) is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in a population due to random chance. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation. It can also cause initially rare alleles to become much more frequent and even fixed. ...

In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to generate high-quality solutions to optimization and search problems by relying on biologically inspired operators such as mutation, crossover …

La dérive génétique est l'évolution d'une population ou d'une espèce causée par des événements aléatoires, impossibles à prévoir.Du point de vue génétique, c'est la modification de la fréquence d'un allèle, ou d'un génotype, au sein d'une population, indépendamment des mutations, de la sélection naturelle et des migrations.La dérive génétique est causée par des ...