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Having only one new sexcapade development to chew on--the New York Times story about first secretary Betty Currie's testimony to the grand jury--the commentariat turns its searchlight away from Silent Bill Clinton and onto Kenneth Starr.
The WP coverage is silent about these wrinkles as well.
This argues indirectly that the mutations responsible for reduced fundamental diet breadth are either completely silent in environments similar to the evolution model, or are in fact beneficial [ 36 ] .
These values may be more useful for evaluating divergence dates than amino-acid sequence identity because they are silent and mutation occurs in a clocklike fashion, rather than in the bursts that are thought to accompany rapid environmental changes.
In particular, rates of nonsynonymous substitution per site (resulting in an amino acid change; d N ) often greatly exceed those of synonymous substitution per site (silent change; d S ), as expected if most mutations are fixed because they increase fitness (Figure 1).