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Not really. (1) Genetic diversity increases with both time and size of the infected population. You'll get a lot more diversity if it's mutating in 4 million i
by woofie11 6y ago
Not really.
(1) Genetic diversity increases with both time and size of the infected population. You'll get a lot more diversity if it's mutating in 4 million individuals than in 4000.
(2) For a virus this young especially, genetic diversity is not at all precise measures.
- MiroF 6y agoThis is not responsive to the parent at all.
- xorfish 6y agoI'm taking about genetic diversity over time. From there you can extrapolate back to when to common ancestor existed. To within a limited number of generations. This calculation shows this common ancestor existed between mid November to December.