Which factor would most likely disrupt genetic equilibrium in a large population? geographic isolation.

1.1 Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium. In 1908, two scientists—Godfrey H. Hardy, an English mathematician, and Wilhelm Weinberg, a German physician—independently worked out a mathematical relationship that related genotypes to allele frequencies called the Hardy-Weinberg principle, a crucial concept in population genetics.

The theory, which later became known as the Hardy-Weinberg principle of equilibrium, states that a population’s allele and genotype frequencies are inherently stable— unless some kind of evolutionary force is acting upon the population, neither the allele nor the genotypic frequencies would change.

The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a principle stating that the genetic variation in a population will remain constant from one generation to the next in the absence of disturbing factors.

-The factors that affect the genetic equilibrium and induce the variability in the population are as follows: mutations, recombinations during sexual reproduction, genetic drift, gene migration or gene flow, and natural selection.

Fur color is influenced by natural selection because the animals with fur colors that do not blend into their surroundings are the ones that are going to die first which is social Darwinism(if you looked that word up it would help a lot) fur color that blends into surroundings are going to be able to survive, and when …

Natural selection only acts on the population’s heritable traits: selecting for beneficial alleles and thus increasing their frequency in the population, while selecting against deleterious alleles and thereby decreasing their frequency—a process known as adaptive evolution.

Natural selection is the fundamental law which allows biologists to explain the origin of (new) species, and the evolutionary development of new life habits and adaptations (Mayr 1960).