The evolutionary design of error-rates, and the fast fixation enigma.

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Genetic and non-genetic error-rates are analyzed in parallel for a lower and a higher organism (E. coli and man, respectively). From the comparison of mutation with fixation rates, contrasting proposals are made, concerning the arrangement of error-rates in the two organisms. In E. coli, reproduction is very conservative, but genetic variability is high within populations. Most mutations are discarded by...

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