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New beneficial mutations are eventually needed not only to counter environmental change, but also to compensate for fixed deleterious mutations. Mutational drought exceeds mutational meltdown even in the conservative case where the latter kind of fitness loss exceeds the former. 4/5
These are both long-term dangers. A shortage of standing genetic variation is more urgent than a shortage of new beneficial mutations, and a rise in inbreeding depression is more urgent than deleterious fixations. 3/5