Great Migration: Life for Migrants in the City. By the end of 1919, some 1 million blacks had left the South, usually traveling by train, boat or bus; a smaller number had automobiles or even horse-drawn carts.
Genetic variation is increased by meiosis During fertilisation, 1 gamete from each parent combines to form a zygote. Because of recombination and independent assortment in meiosis, each gamete contains a different set of DNA.
It makes it hard to tell whether the results are due to genes that are on the same chromosome and crossing over took place or if the genes were on different chromosomes producing the same result we would get for independent assortment.