The evolutionary claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting. Evidence for pseudogene function continues to accumulate, and is much more significant than the actual number of known functional pseudogenes. In addition, pseudogene-related phenomena show considerable differences between ??close?? primates, and are neither self-consistent nor in agreement with other phylogenetic interpretations. Furthermore, pseudogene deployment and alteration are governed by strongly non-random events. Unless evolutionists can rigorously demonstrate that pseudogene-related phenomena cannot occur independently in different primates, their ??shared mistakes?? argument should be rejected.
Are pseudogenes ‘shared mistakes’ between primate genomes?