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Hardy-Weinberg law: Quick Facts

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Diagram illustrating the Hardy-Weinberg law for two alleles, showing a mother and father each contributing alleles A and a to offspring, with resulting genotype frequencies p squared (AA), 2pq (Aa), and q squared (aa) represented in babies.
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Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician