Usually means: Random changes in allele frequencies.
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  2. genetic drift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. genetic drift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (genetic drift)

noun:  (genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.

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