James Boyle
@jamesboypaleozoic.bsky.social
Teaching professor in the geology department at SUNY UB since 2019 as the resident paleontologist. Focused on the lower Paleozoic arthrodire placoderms and graptolites and their uses in quantitative biostratigraphy and macroevolution.
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In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n