# Progress after the Royal Society conference?

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/progress-after-the-royal-society-conference/17569>\
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**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/progress-after-the-royal-society-conference/17569 "2025-12-22T17:32:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/progress-after-the-royal-society-conference/17569/257 "2026-01-29T20:16:48Z")

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> [@Roy](#):
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> I’m right not to believe you, because your next post describes an experimental attempt at reversing the alteration of two residues - which _is_ selecting the mutations to look for ahead of time

Well, fine, but in any fitness advance, just any two mutations anywhere in the genome is not going to do.

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