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The structure coefficient σ for the shift rule, as a function of the population size N, according to (6). A logarithmic scale is used for the horizontal axis. For N = 2 we have σ = 0. The value of σ exceeds one for N ≥ 6. Asymptotically, as N increases, σ increases as N/ln N.