Calculating CSI for Babies

In an effort to stop the incessant whining from non-contributing commentors Richie Retardo Hughes and blipey the clueless clown, I offer the following (not that I expect either one of the moron twins to understand it):

Calculating CSI for babies-

First you take a sample of specified information- for this example I have chosen the abstract from “Out of Africa and Back Again: Nested Cladistic Analysis of Human Y Chromosome Variation”:

We surveyed nine diallelic polymorphic sites on the Y chromosomes of 1,544 individuals from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the New World. Phylogenetic analyses of these nine sites resulted in a tree for 10 distinct Y haplotypes with a coalescence time of~150,000 years. The 10 haplotypes were unevenly distributed among human populations: 5 were restricted to a particular continent, 2 were shared between Africa and Europe, 1 was present only in the Old World, and 2 were found in all geographic regions surveyed. The ancestral haplotype was limited to African populations. Random permutation procedures revealed statistically significant patterns of geographical structuring of this paternal genetic variation. The results of a nested cladistic analysis indicated that these geographical associations arose through a combination of processes, including restricted, recurrent gene flow (isolation by distance) and range expansions. We inferred that one of the oldest events in the nested cladistic analysis was a range expansion out of Africa which resulted in the complete replacement of Y chromosomes throughout the Old World, a finding consistent with many versions of the Out of Africa Replacement Model. A second and more recent range expansion brought Asian Y chromosomes back to Africa without replacing the indigenous African male gene pool. Thus, the previously observed high levels of Y chromosomal genetic diversity in Africa may be due in part to bidirectional population movements. Finally, a comparison of our results with those from nested cladistic analyses of human mtDNA and b-globin data revealed different patterns of inferences for males and females concerning the relative roles of population history (range expansions) and population structure (recurrent gene flow), thereby adding a new sex-specific component to models of human evolution.

Then you count the number of characters. That bit of information has 1868 characters including spaces. So to figure out the exact number of bits you would take 1868 and multiply it by 5 (bits per character)- 1868 x 5= 9340 bits of specified information.

So in this case CSI = 9340. (that is unless you want to get anal about non-essential characters so the prediction is...)