On Fri, 14 May 1999, Hans Kylberg wrote:

> 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???

I didn't say that there is no evidence for mutations.  I said
that there is no evidence that phenotypic variations are caused
by mutations to any significant extent.  If you know of some good
examples of new variants of species being caused by mutations,
I'd like to hear about it.

Todd Moody
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