1. If ape synonymous mutations behaved like Shen 2022's yeast mutants median synonymous effect s = 0.0110; detection floor 0.005 Ne = 10000, s = -0.0110: 4Nes = 440; fixation probability relative to neutral = 3.58e-189 Ne = 10000, s = -0.00500: 4Nes = 200; fixation probability relative to neutral = 2.77e-85 Shen's fraction (0.759) would predict Ks/Kneutral <= 0.241 (+ a little from the 0.013 beneficial) observed Ks/Ki, autosomes: 0.635 masked, 0.791 unmasked (Lu & Wu 2005) largest strongly-constrained fraction the observation allows: 0.365 (masked) to 0.209 (unmasked) chimp consortium like-for-like deficits: non-CpG 0.3, CpG 0.5 ratio of Shen's predicted fraction to the largest allowed: 2.08 to 3.63x 2. Lu & Wu 2005's nearly-neutral estimate, as selection coefficients 2Nes 0.5-0.8 with Ne = 10000: s = 2.50e-5 to 4.00e-5 Shen's median effect is 275 to 440 times larger fixation probability relative to neutral at s = -2.50e-5: 0.582 fixation probability relative to neutral at s = -4.00e-5: 0.405 3. Human-chimp codon identity (Theistic Evolution ch. 15, p. 499) synonymous divergence Ks = 0.0112; intergenic Ki = 0.0141 (Lu & Wu 2005, autosomes, unmasked) synonymous-site identity 98.89%; intergenic identity 98.59% synonymous sites change at 79.1% of the intergenic rate; a function that fixed each codon would make this near 0% 4. New synonymous mutations per person and their cost new coding mutations per diploid genome per generation: 0.775 synonymous share 0.25: 0.194 synonymous per person; Shen-like: 0.147 deleterious at s ~ 0.0110 -> cost 0.00162 per generation (purged, not accumulated) Lu & Wu-like: 0.174 at s = 2.50e-5 -> 4.36e-6 per generation; over 200 generations (~5800 yr) 0.0871%; over 10,000 generations 4.26% Lu & Wu-like: 0.174 at s = 4.00e-5 -> 6.97e-6 per generation; over 200 generations (~5800 yr) 0.139%; over 10,000 generations 6.73% synonymous share 0.33: 0.258 synonymous per person; Shen-like: 0.196 deleterious at s ~ 0.0110 -> cost 0.00216 per generation (purged, not accumulated) Lu & Wu-like: 0.232 at s = 2.50e-5 -> 5.81e-6 per generation; over 200 generations (~5800 yr) 0.116%; over 10,000 generations 5.64% Lu & Wu-like: 0.232 at s = 4.00e-5 -> 9.30e-6 per generation; over 200 generations (~5800 yr) 0.186%; over 10,000 generations 8.88% (upper bound for Lu & Wu-like: assumes every such mutation is fixed and none is offset by a back-mutation) 5. Methods that treat synonymous sites as neutral Ks/Kneutral = 0.635: dN/dS overstates dN/dneutral by 1.57x; a mutation-rate date from Ks is 36.5% too young Ks/Kneutral = 0.791: dN/dS overstates dN/dneutral by 1.26x; a mutation-rate date from Ks is 20.9% too young A fossil-calibrated clock on the same sites absorbs a constant constraint; the bias then cancels. 6. ClinVar pathogenic counts per possible mutation synonymous share 0.25, missense share 0.70: missense pathogenic calls per possible mutation are 31.1x synonymous synonymous share 0.33, missense share 0.63: missense pathogenic calls per possible mutation are 46.0x synonymous raw count ratio missense/synonymous: 87.0