BIO-Complexity Paper Shows Many Multi-Mutation Features Unlikely to Evolve in History of the Earth

Doug Axe of Bioogic Institute has a new peer-reviewed scientific paper in the journal BIO-Complexity titled "The Limits of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations." The purpose of this paper is to mathematically determine just how long it takes to evolve traits that require multiple mutations before any adaptive benefit is conferred on the organism.

To put this question in context, the ability of Darwinian evolution to produce features that ...