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The Founder Effect (2023)
Director: Justin MacGregor
Cast: Rick Edwards, Greg Sestero, Evan Riley Brown, Lillith Foxx
Runtime113 min
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When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows.
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The Founder Effect is a recently released 2023 drama, mystery, and science fiction film directed by Justin MacGregor. While critical reception has not yet been widely reported, the film follows a grandfather who must grapple with his family's history and confront mysterious phenomena in an effort to save his missing grandson.
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In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright. As a result of the loss of genetic variation, the new population may be distinctively different, both genotypically and phenotypically, from the parent population from which it is derived. In extreme cases, the founder effect is thought to lead to the speciation and subsequent evolution of new species.
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