In this article, what, other than hubris, allows the modelers to conclude that the assumptions upon which their calculations are based are more valid than those upon which the genetic and paleontological calculations are based? Letting a computer do the number manipulations doesn’t change “garbage in, garbage out.”
Leonard Stoloff Delray Beach, Fla.
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