At 23:05 1999-05-13 -0400, Todd wrote:

>(3)  The way in which the variation in genotype and its
>consequent variation in phenotype arises in the first place is
>through random mutation.
>
>The thing that I have found most disconcerting is that there is
>virtually no empirical evidence for (3).

I recently read that mutation rate in humans is much higher than
expected before. How is it possible to measure the rate of something
that there is no empirical evidence for???

- Hans