a: neutral mutation ~
b: 'mistake' that does not alter the message

What:

"We can also ignore the neutral mutations, for another reason: not because they are rare but because they are irrelevant. A neutral mutation is like a 'mistake' that does not alter the message. A neutral mistake could be something like a spelling variant, as if the speaker imagines the word as TYGER and the receiver imagines ..."


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Date: Jan 20 2018 5:09 PM


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