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From: "Sasson Margaliot" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] More on Mutation Rates
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:05:59 +0200
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On 2/20/07, John Chandler wrote:


> The problem with a population-based
> approach, like that of Zhivotovsky et al, is that their composite
> TMRCA is a statistical artifact based on the unknown details of the
> population history, and they therefore have no idea how the TMRCA
> relates to the historical age of the population.
>
> John Chandler


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