Wally wrote: "I did however note how barbaric I thought it was to require
that kind of
indirect measurement of a fundamental quantity."
Interesting idea. Of course most of the "fundemental quantities" we measure
are done indirectly.
I suppose even the measurement of a board with a steel tape is indirect -- I
do this all the time at the H4H houses I'm working on this summer. One
always assumes the steel tape has been correctly calibrated. There seems to
be a continuum of "indirectness" in scientific measurements. I don't see
that "mutation rate" differs in kind from my board measurements, only in
degree of difficulty.
Burgy
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