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This is interesting, but even a brief discussion of selection bias would help it be more convincing. If you pick the most wildly successful mutation out of the
by thurn 5y ago
This is interesting, but even a brief discussion of selection bias would help it be more convincing. If you pick the most wildly successful mutation out of the thousands of available choices of course it is going to be an outlier in numerous ways. Isn't it perhaps even likely that the most widespread variant would have a low number of silent mutations and strong immune-evasion capabilities?
- kelnos 5y agoIt's definitely likely that the most widespread variant would have strong immune-evasion capabilities, but I don't see how it follows that it it's likely that it would have a low number of silent mutations. The immune-evasion would be something that evolution would select for, but the number of silent mutations (low or high) would seem not to matter where evolution is concerned.