# Pseudogenes and Evolutionary Process

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudogenes-and-evolutionary-process/77124>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 20, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudogenes-and-evolutionary-process/77124 "2001-08-20T13:20:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pseudogenes-and-evolutionary-process/77124/41 "2001-08-22T21:40:32Z")

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**Terminus Est**

Excellent link. The important thing (from my perspective) is that the minimum percentage “p” allowed is 10%, and the maximum “N” is 250. This is talking about a pretty small population and a relatively high percentage of people as a starting point. I would have to think that using 1 person as a starting point would alter the figures dramatically. Also, I would imagine that 250 members of the species is extraordinarily low. OTOH, 250 generations is also very low as well. But from running it a bunch of times at .1/250/250 it goes to 0 about half the time - I would think this would increase astronomically if more reasonable numbers would be used.

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