No worries. Leaving claims of hubris aside, I think some of the sibling threads are a tad mistaken. For example, population size is a determiner of the rate of

No worries. Leaving claims of hubris aside, I think some of the sibling threads are a tad mistaken. For example, population size is a determiner of the rate of neutral drift. I'm trying to work through what are the implications to having more genealogical ancestors than genetic ancestors, but it isn't immediately clear. If you really want your mind blown, check out Art Poon's paper "The Rate of Compensatory Mutation in the DNA Bacteriophage φX174" and Daniel Weinreich's "Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins". Both have some amazing evolutionary implications.