What are "Mutations"?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@nwrickert

I agree with @swamidass – that mutation was always used broadly. That’s one of my criticisms of evolutionary biology. I really think they should narrow it, or have several different classes of mutation. To some extent they do, but “mutation” is still used in a very broad sense.

Think I answered this elsewhere. Got lost in the split…

@swamidass

We do have several classes of mutations and are discovering new ones all the time. Your objection is ungrounded.