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Is our genome decaying (see "Genetic Entropy"), and, if so, is this evidence for our genome being "young"?
In the book Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome the author says that the genome cannot be old because the genome is "decaying". Decay is a very subjective term, but in this case he means that the fitness of humans is going down not up. Is it true that our genome is decaying over time, and that the fitness of humans is decreasing? ....