(May 28, 2013 at 4:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: It's "center hole"
There are a few non-sense mutations that stick around, like the laryngeal nerve, which reaches a ridiculous round trip length on a giraffe.
But most, as I pointed out on a paper from '94, will disappear within, at most, 80 generations.... that is if the mutation isn't that much non-sense that it prevents mating.
Now, given that very few individuals from any population get that mutation and couple that with the odds of any given animal to become a fossil, how likely do you think it will be for us to find a non-sense fossilized individual, instead of a "normal" individual?
There's really no use: I posted that laryngeal nerve fact a few pages back, and our esteemed "Scholar" just ignores it, because it doesn't fit into the narrative he wants to propose. This is really more a question of intellectual sport to me, at this point.
PS: a thousand posts! Woo!
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