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Subject: Re: Famous medieval DNA - the Plantagenet project
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:51:10 EDT
In a message dated 8/4/2007 9:42:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
Rates of around 2% to 5% per
coupling are estimated. Taking the lower estimate, 2% per coupling
corresponds to once per 50 generations or around 50% per typical ancestral>>
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This reasoning is faulty. Starting from a false premise, you get a false
conclusion.
WHO is estimating this rate and where is their raw data published?
Will Johnson
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