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Actually, it is gene duplication *and* frameshift. If you have a frameshift in a singleton it will just mess up the gene.
That is a good point. I touch on retrotranposons - but they are regarded as modulators of genes, not as providing new information when they are inserted in genic regions...
Read the paper...I just don't know why you brought up the subject of frameshift mutations.
You brought it up. It was your question.
Peer-review is a blind process. We will have to wait before other biologists cite the paper.
Why is that important? Did your idol Darwin have the requisite...
And so the adaptive story telling takes a new direction. One has to wonder how the hyrax, the sea cow and the elephant constitute a monphyletic group....but just look at the diversity within artiodactyls.
Anyway, the "creationist" begs to differ on evolutionism...