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Suppose you discover a new gene family in your favorite study organism, which includes man...

Suppose you discover a new gene family in your favorite study organism, which includes many similar but not identical genes that all arose from a single ancestral gene via duplication events. What data would you gather, and what calculations would you make, to explore the hypothesis that the expansion of the gene family was favored by natural selection (i.e., adaptive)?

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