A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions.

Is this an accurate assessment, or is the excess dispersion of the baboon data points simply the result of lower mutation counts and higher noise? Additional line by line comments: Line 119 states that baboons enter puberty "around age 6 and reproduce four years later." Does this mean that age 10 is the mean age of first reproduction, or the mean age of a randomly sampled baboon's parent? Line 280 states that "paternal mutations are accruing no faster with age in baboons than humans (LR test p-value = 0.045)." Doesn't the fact that this p-value is less than 0.05 imply a marginally significant difference, not a lack of difference?

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