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A comment on Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017). Parent comment

Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by domnomnom on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:24PM (#20494053)
No but I think phylogenetics is pretty bs. I don’t think you can use mutation rate/differences to infer timescales.
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Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by vibrio on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:48PM (#20596513)
Science doesn't care what you think.
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Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by billiam on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:50PM (#20494170)
Based on what evidence? Or just your "feeling?"
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Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by domnomnom on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:57PM (#20494203)
I think you’re confused on how evidence and burden of proof works. These studies use genetic differences as a proxy for differences in periods of time. If there was a context that caused a high rate of genetic change, it would appear to be an organism with a lineage that spanned across a large time period.
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