Adam, Eve and Population Genetics: A Reply to Dr. Richard Buggs (Part 1)

[RichardBuggs]

Dear all,

I have now started to respond to @DennisVenema Part 2 blog reply to me. I have posted Part 1 of my response here:

Coalescence at bottlenecks – Richard Buggs

And placed it on the Biologos forum here:

Adam, Eve and Population Genetics: A Reply to Dr. Richard Buggs (Part 2)

Here is a copy of the text of my response at: Coalescence at bottlenecks – Richard Buggs In his blog “Adam, Eve and Population Genetics: A Reply to Dr. Richard Buggs (Part 2)”, Dr Dennis Venema raises the interesting issue of how much coalescence will occur at a bottleneck of two. This is a very relevant issue as rates of coalescence can be used to detect a long lasting bottleneck and it is possible that they might be able to detect a short, sharp one too. Dr Venema makes the strong claim that,…

best wishes
Richard