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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Randomness of Mutations in Sperm
When we say a word like random, it doesn't mean a. There's no structure there at all. And so when you say that there are mutations in d and a that are random, how well do we understand the probability distribution of what's going to happen at every step in these kinds of processs? It's still a really active field. We don't know in any individual sperm or individual egg, where the mutations are going to be,. But there's going to be 20, in a human eggar sperm, there's gong to be 20 or 30 new mutations that weren't in mam or dad. A they're going to occur in spread throughout three billion base pairs
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