Testing Jeanson's Model: Y Chromosome Mutation Rates

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@r_speir

How does 275,000 years line up with evolutionary timescales? You would have the invent the other million+ years needed to satisfy evolutionary requirements

That’s not true @r_speir. Mt-Eve and Y-Adam are expected to be a few hundred thousand years in the past. We get the mutation rate, however, this way:

@swamidass

Starting from the assumption of common descent, we can look at the amount of differences between humans/chimp DNA to predict a mutation rate, the evolution-mutation-rate.

The formula is pretty simple: Rate x Time = Distance.