Back on 8th. August in the previous whale transitions thread I made
this comment:
I can believe that you might be able to produce a formula that provides the answer to the question "How many samples along the whale evolutionary path should we expect to find?". It would unfortunately be like the Drake Equation for working out how many civilisations exist in the Galaxy. We don't know the values to use for so many of the terms that by using different values you can get pretty much any answer from 0 to billions.
randman disagreed but I couldn't really follow
his answer and IIRC he was banned before we could follow it up.
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
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