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That still doesn't "prove" causation, as there are innumerable demographics that are either impossible to match or nobody thinks to match. And FWIW, the paper d
by streptomycin 14y ago
That still doesn't "prove" causation, as there are innumerable demographics that are either impossible to match or nobody thinks to match. And FWIW, the paper does say that "factors other than father’s age do not seem to contribute substantially to the mutation rate diversity in our data".
- learc83 14y ago> "factors other than father’s age do not seem to contribute substantially to the mutation rate diversity in our data". But as another poster already pointed out, age could be hiding other factors. Exposure to environmental factors that could cause mutations change with time, e.g, older fathers would have been exposed to pesticides that were banned before younger fathers were born, nutritional changes, etc...
- streptomycin 14y agoI know, that's the point I was replying to in my previous post..