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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fundamental principle in population genetics stating that the genotype frequencies and gene frequencies of a large, randomly mating population remain constant provided immigration, mutation, and selection do not take place.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Godfrey Harold Hardy, (1877–1947), British mathematician, and Wilhelm , Weinberg, (1862–1937), German physician.]
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