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The interesting thing for me here was the assertion that mitochondrial DNA was inaccurate for deducing evolutionary timescales. This has important bearings for
by nopassrecover 17y ago
The interesting thing for me here was the assertion that mitochondrial DNA was inaccurate for deducing evolutionary timescales. This has important bearings for our current understanding of human evolution which as I understand it is based heavily on mitochondrial data.
- kissickas 17y ago>Though well suited to gauging the timing of evolutionary events I think you may have misread that.
- nopassrecover 17y agoI don't think so - they claim it is well suited but simultaneously claim it was wrong by 271% when compared to mitochondrial + nuclear DNA samples because mitochondrial DNA "is a relatively small part of the genome". I thought the advantage of mitochondrial DNA was its stability but if it leads to that margin of error it makes me curious about the reliability of other evolutionary work.