# Ratio of Beneficial Mutations to Others

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**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ratio-of-beneficial-mutations-to-others/6179 "2019-05-09T20:41:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/ratio-of-beneficial-mutations-to-others/6179/6 "2019-05-09T22:02:12Z")

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> [@Polar Bears Again, Is Behe Vindicated?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/polar-bears-again-is-behe-vindicated/6085/42):
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> I beg your pardon, but it is a matter of fact that deleterious mutations are immeasurably more numerous than beneficial ones, a good estimate being one million to one.

I strongly suspect that mutations that “break” genes do considerably outnumber those that add new function. But where did you come up with the 1,000,000:1 ratio? Is this published somewhere? It would be good to have data supporting your conjecture.

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