I also disagree that all that stuff should be obvious to everybody.
It doesn't. But not everybody publishes something in journals. When you do, you have a responsibility to know your subject.
They are thinking about it not as a random mutation but as an intentional genetic program which just makes much more sense.
This actually makes little sense to me. The replication machinery and programming is deeply established, not a random mutation. The mutation is in the genes that regulate the system. The inappropriate execution of the replication is the key and that's well established to arise from mutational changes in regulatory elements.
It doesn't. But not everybody publishes something in journals. When you do, you have a responsibility to know your subject.
They are thinking about it not as a random mutation but as an intentional genetic program which just makes much more sense.
This actually makes little sense to me. The replication machinery and programming is deeply established, not a random mutation. The mutation is in the genes that regulate the system. The inappropriate execution of the replication is the key and that's well established to arise from mutational changes in regulatory elements.