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Population genetic concerns related to the interpretation of empirical outliers and the neglect of common evolutionary processes

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I wish to express a number of concerns related to the analyses and interpretations presented by Zhong et al. (2022). While my critique is contextualized around this specific publication, it simply serves as an illustrative example of issues common amongst many published analyses in evolutionary and ecological genomics; namely, the development of appropriate baseline models for evolutionary genomic analysis, and the interpretation of empirical outliers. Thus, the publication in question is certainly not uniquely problematic in these discussed regards.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant R35GM139383.

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