Re: Metabolism may explain fossils vs. genes evolution mismatches

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/q-bio.PE/0404027

http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/q-bio/papers/0404/0404027.pdf

Man!

People, this is the Grand Unifying Theory of molecular evolution!!! And we
really have to ask why nobody found this out 20 years ago!!!

:-o :-O :-o :-O :-o :-O :-o

OK -- it lacks the proposed effect that species with large body sizes have
small populations and therefore faster genetic drift. This could perhaps
explain why Fig. 4 overcompensates the divergence dates of *Mus*-*Rattus*
and Hystricognathi-erm... rest of Rodentia minus Sciurognathi, I think.

Now it's clear why nematodes etc. evolve so fast!