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From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Measuring Genetic Distances
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:59:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <59.70b636.2cfe2aaa@aol.com>


At 12:49 PM 02/12/03 EST, you wrote:
>The way I see it is simple. You have 25 drunks at the bar. They all
arrived
>at the same time and have equal chance to leave. You come back later and
two
>are on benches, one only 1 block away and another 2 blocks away. The odds
>are that one moved one time and the other moved only twice because all the
other
>drunks are still at the bar and haven't moved. It is not probable that the
>two on the benches have moved multiple times and the ones in the bar not
at all.
>
>A bar may not be a good example as it is an attraction to draw the drunks
>back. If a marker mutates, does it have an attraction to return to its
original
>state? It not, then my analogy is more sound.


Except that some drunks drink faster than others making them
drift away quicker (ie. to use the bathroom, chase someone,
moved away because they are obnoxious). All in all, this
analogy is making me realize that the best thing to do is for
all of us to drink away however we see fit.

Cheers!




Peter A. Kincaid
Hampton, NB, Canada

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