Well, no. If they had not performed the largest Arabidopsis mutation accumulation experiment in history and had not carefully tracked all mutations occurring across a population of thousands of plants growing in controlled conditions across multiple generations, you might be able to argue survivor bias.
They demonstrated that germline mutations that affect actual functional proteins simply are not passed on half as often as mutations in junk DNA. That’s a pretty big deal.
Well, no. If they had not performed the largest Arabidopsis mutation accumulation experiment in history and had not carefully tracked all mutations occurring across a population of thousands of plants growing in controlled conditions across multiple generations, you might be able to argue survivor bias.
They demonstrated that germline mutations that affect actual functional proteins simply are not passed on half as often as mutations in junk DNA. That’s a pretty big deal.
I guess you got these details from the original paper? Because the linked article does not explain that at all.
There’s a link to Nature at the bottom of the article but its full of wierd redirects. Here is the actual (open acess) article I think https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04269-6