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No but I think phylogenetics is pretty bs. I don’t think you can use mutation rate/differences to infer timescales.
by domnomnom 7y ago
No but I think phylogenetics is pretty bs. I don’t think you can use mutation rate/differences to infer timescales.
- vibrio 7y agoScience doesn't care what you think.
- billiam 7y agoBased on what evidence? Or just your "feeling?"
- domnomnom 7y agoI think you’re confused on how evidence and burden of proof works. These studies use genetic differences as a proxy for differences in periods of time. If there was a context that caused a high rate of genetic change, it would appear to be an organism with a lineage that spanned across a large time period.