We are going to ask you do do a bunch of things now that will (hopefully) teach you some stuff about the coalescent process AND more about msprime.
You will have to look things up in the msprime documentation:
http://msprime.readthedocs.io
We are going to look at what various demographic processes do to data.
We will first look at the effects on trees and then the effects on "data", by which we mean a genotype matrix of simulated SNP data.
What is the effect of recent growth on genetic variation?
Model has one or, optionally, two paramters:
What is the effect of varying these parameters on the following quantities: