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Comment by stultissimus

Mutation rate ranges many orders of magnitude. See a figure here (linking a tweet (not mine) to avoid journal paywall, but underlying paper is linked in the tweet): https://twitter.com/DrCJ_Houldcroft/status/15272438687390760...

Halderia would be 'lower eukaryotes'; we are 'higher eukaryotes'.

The idea of 'helping the halderia out' by increasing mutation rate is kind of funny; that would almost certainly kill them (this is largely how radiation kills us). You would need to be able to reliably and specifically introduce favorable mutations (i.e. those that increase fitness), which is far beyond current capabilities.

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