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One of the conditions which we had to assume in order to derive the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was that the members of the population belong to distinct generations, and that individuals from different generations do not breed with one another. For such a population, the set of ancestors of the population’s members has no element in common with the set of the population’s descendants.
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Jacquard, A. (1974). Overlapping Generations. In: The Genetic Structure of Populations. Biomathematics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88415-3_8
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