I've started taking the last Friday of each month "off" to read and spitball ideas with colleagues. I'm glad this dropped today bc it's definitely my reading material for the rest of the afternoon. Really wonderful work.

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This thread is already tl;dr, so I'll wrap things up here. A thorough discussion of the theory will have to wait for another thread or, in the meantime, it's all here in the paper. If you made it this far, thank you!

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Kimura’s insight was correct. There’s a deep and fundamental connection between load and the amount of information that natural selection puts into the genome. And generalizing Kimura's theory, this relationship can be observed directly in laboratory experiments!

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I will be studying jeans pant biology, specifically!

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So when the sky opens up, and your life is shining through, are you not blinded?

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