Re:Lab Leak 2.0?
by epgui on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:14PM
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Gaps also appear because evolution is not a smooth process, and once in a while a large number of mutations are selected for. We see the same type of pattern even in vitro. Moreover, mutations are not always well described by gaussian processes: the rate of mutation can be seen as having a fat tailed distribution.
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Re:Lab Leak 2.0?
by TeeMassive on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:24PM
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That's not the way it works.
Mutations has to be incremental because most mutations are not viable or doesn't provide any reproductive gain. Having multiple functional mutations all at once happening in a very short amount of time and being naturally selected in big enough number of infections is very very improbable.
> mutations are not always well described by gaussian processes: the rate of mutation can be seen as having a fat tailed distribution
I'm sorry if I have to be blunt, but you have no idea of what you are talking about.