[Doctor Stochastic]

There are, as everyone knows, only 4 bases in DNA. And this places an odd statistical constraint on the comparison of sequences. No DNA similarity at all – that is to say, two random sequences that share no common ancestry – are still going to match at one out of four sites.

A statistically meaningless question. That's like saying that uncorrelated two binary sequences match at half their locations. The guy's article is just nonsense mathematical ly.

More relevant would be the correlation between sequences.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your post!

More relevant would be the correlation between sequences.

It will be very interesting to see how they plan to analyze the data statistically. In the worst case scenario, perhaps they will just use the information to footnote the classic tree and make a few adjustments here and there...

[edsheppa]

That's like saying that [two uncorrelated] binary sequences match at half their locations.

They will.