Cooper: Assumptions in mutation rate

Well you are right on that. You cannot claim heliocentric certainty going about 10 million years. Venema was wrong.

We can be that certain going back 10,000 years, going back 100,000 years. At about 500,000 years it starts to get murky. The evidence get’s much weaker.

I’m writing a paper with a student righ tnow.

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