[Diamond]

Ok, fine. But what then is the deal with the inferring of a 'genetic evolutionary speed'? Just that their speedometer is messed up?

Cordially,

[Nebullis]

No, the speedometer is set for the genes. This research addresses what happens between genes and morphology, behavior, cognition, or other final expression from the genes. And how that can differ between different organs. Still, the information for those dynamic patterns is located in the genes. But a small change in a critical control region, can affect the expression of hundreds of genes. Many of the sequences involved in this type of control are not located in the traditional protein-coding regions of the genome, but lie around them, in "junk" regions.