From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 10:05:01 MST
On 2/23/06, Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> wrote:
>
> ...in the absence of error correcting mechanisms being produced
> by natural selection.
>
No, that's with all the error correcting mechanisms. In fact, one set of
calculations showed that even after taking into account all error
correction, redundancy etc, humans should still have about half a dozen
effective mutations per generation, which means any people you might happen
to meet from time to time would be figments of a deranged imagination. (I
don't know whether that's been resolved yet, though I do remember a more
recent announcement that the number of genes in the human genome was smaller
than previously thought, which would help.)
- Russell
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