Re: Metabolism may explain fossils vs. genes evolution mismatches

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

> >People, this is the Grand Unifying Theory of molecular evolution!!! And
we
> >really have to ask why nobody found this out 20 years ago!!!
>
> Because they found it out 10 years ago.

Ah.

> Look up the work of Adachi, Kosher, and Cantatore, and you'll see that
it's
> long been known that animals with faster metabolisms have a higher rate of
> evolution at the level of DNA (after correcting for body mass).

So far, molecular divergence date estimates haven't even tried taking this
into account. That's why I assumed the effect wasn't known quantitatively.

> >Now it's clear why nematodes etc. evolve so fast!
>
> Not to me.

They're very small, except for a few parasitic ones.