Utility
The ratio is a more powerful test of the neutral model of evolution than many others available in population genetics as it requires fewer assumptions.
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“Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)