(December 5, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Quantum Wrote:(December 5, 2015 at 1:53 pm)AAA Wrote: What information? Mutation rates? my genetics textbook
Did you then do the calculation of the resulting genetic "drift" in the population over geological time yourself? How did you come to the conclusion that the rate is too low to explain genetic diversity?
Uh, I never mentioned genetic drift directly, or gave a numerical value for it. Also, I never said that the rate is too low to explain genetic diversity. Point mutations simply cannot lead to new functional sequences because they are just the alteration of existing bases. Also you would have to have many sequential mutations in a row becoming the correct base at one time, and in the correct order with no missing spaces in order to gain a new functional sequence that would be selected for. I have tried to do this calculation and I couldn't find an online calculator that was capable of handling such big odds.
