A single exception does not automatically invalidate a rule. I hope that you understand biology well enough to know that the duplication of DNA is not 100% perfect. If it were 100% perfect, then no mutation will ever occur and no evolutionary change will ever occur since there would be no natural variation for natural selection to act upon. The silvery gray iris remains a universal trait in L. alterna even if your claim that you found a wild caught specimen of L. alterna without the silvery gray iris is authentic. A mutation in a single individual does not prove that this trait is not universal. I did not accept your claim as valid. I nevertheless dealt with this find as though it were authentic and see what effect it would have on my theory. As I noted elsewhere, you failed to respond to my arguments, even though my arguments suggest that such a find, even if authentic, does not falsify my hypothesis.

And it remains to be seen whether your claim is true or not. But judging from your persistent refusal to publish your findings, it is perhaps safe to repeat what I have said elsewhere:

There is no beef, only bull, in your claim that you have found an L. alterna without a silvery gray iris.

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