The neutral-mutation hypothesis suggests all of the following EXCEPT:
A) the evolution of most genetic variation in a population is influenced by genetic drift.
B) when natural selection is at work on protein variants, it will lead to little variation in the population.
C) most molecular variation is adaptively neutral-for example, most protein variants are functionally equivalent.
D) natural selection is still an important evolutionary force.
E) genetic variation in a population is maintained mainly by natural selection.
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