The power of mutation

Traditional theories in evolutionary biology hold that a neutral mutation occasionally can drift to fixation in a population by genetic drift. In this paper, we determine the frequency of this event more precisely. We show by simulation that a single neutral mutation spreads fast by genetic drift in a population. We show that (1) the size of the spread has a power law distribution, and (2) the required average number of generations for a specific spread size has a power law distribution. We have also shown that sexual reproduction effectively stops large neutral mutations from spreading through the population