Experimental Evidence of 'Taking the Bait'

[Mercer (John Mercer)]

@colewd

Problematic evidence for the gene duplication hypothesis is the evidence of deleterious mutations when AA substitutions occurred prior to gene duplication.

Then cite the evidence instead of describing it.

@Rumraket

Stop wasting your time rebutting Bill.

I’ll do as I wish, thanks. If you want to moderate, volunteer to do so.

@Rumraket

Everything worth saying on this topic already has been fifty million times. It’s like arguing with a chat-bot.

I know.

Speaking of arguing, did the proteins you were claiming to be representative of ALL proteins WRT a mutational bias favoring decreased happen to be small, globular, easy-to-purify-and-express ones? I’m happy to check for you if you provide a working link to the paper you claimed had universal validity.