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Absolutely wrong. Evolutionary theory has to take a back seat to highly quantitative population genetics.

If you do not know what “effective population size” means then you should watch from the side lines.

I think I am a respectable quantitative geneticist. I do not use the term myself but I have no fundamental distaste for the idea of junk DNA.

It is inevitable given our constant war with viruses that want to highjack our genomes.




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