Kondrashov's Paradox: Why We Haven't Died 100 Times Over

The Poisson distribution.

The most common mutations, transitions, are most commonly caused by keto-enol tautomerization of the substrate. They are in no way errors. If you believe that God directly designed life, God designed the reason for the vast majority of mutations. Therefore, the concept of perfection is irrelevant.

That’s precisely my point. Polymorphism, an important concept that you don’t understand. Your focus on mutation blinds you to it. Ironically, polymorphism, not mutation, is what Darwin observed.

You obviously don’t understand. My challenge to you to explain polymorphism has absolutely nothing to do with mutations, unless you’re trying to claim that wildly different mutation rates are responsible. Are you?

That’s absurd. One can see its absurdity by applying it to language. Languages evolve over time, which is a string of moments. So either no languages ever come into being, or they do and there is a moment when it happens.

So, Paul, when was the moment that a person first spoke French?

So, two things you obviously don’t understand.

  1. Evolution only happens to populations, never individuals.
  2. Most drift and selection acts upon existing polymorphisms, which outnumber the new mutations you’re so obsessed with by ??? to one.

I suggest that you learn what that ratio is for humans before pontificating any more. It is an objective, empirical fact.

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