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To: Doctor Stochastic
Mutation itself isn't truly random. It occurs more frequently in some parts of the genome than in others.

"That may still be truly random, only that the underlying distribution isn't uniform. Having a uniform distribution isn't all that important as the distribution may be changed by looking at things differently.

And if it happens in the same areas across related species?

172 posted on 11/04/2005 1:28:29 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp

Capacity for mutation need not be random. Individual mutations may be. The "randomly chosen" mutation in each specific instance still follows the distribution of susceptability.

A uniform sample of two unequal regions will still have more points from the bigger region.

My point is that the term "random" does not imply a specific distribution.


184 posted on 11/04/2005 2:17:38 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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