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From: "Nicholas Penington" <>
Subject: [DNA] Re Dyson and Dr. Sykes
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:16:31 -0500


>For now, plain common sense suggests to me that a) applies, and that the
human coincidence of the same name in the same place with nearly the same
pattern around a modal cluster points to 5 mutations in 700 years.


Have I missed something as I think of this as 1 mutation in 700 years in
five separate lines? This means that the estimated rate of mutations is
about right, about 1 per 500~700 years give or take. NP.

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