(October 5, 2013 at 4:10 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Deleterious mutations get removed from the genome after 1~80 generations (20, on average).
Non-deleterious mutations may remain for thousands of generations.
Beneficial mutations remain for as long as they are beneficial.
Back to school with you, man. I told you to read... why didn't you?
So it is just the definition of non-deleterious vs Deleterious.
So when the genome has been corrupted by non-deleterious mutations of very many different kinds for all individuals of the population, how will they be removed? You did say "may" after "thousands" of generations. So may never or may after 100,000 generations. You just proved my point.
So as they accumulate, why do they then not start to become deleterious but now there is no way to remove because all individuals have the very many errors.
This is simple logic and you are blind to see it.