If the functional proteins were too rare, then it would mean biological information is like books or software code: You can’t evolve fundamentally new and functional information through a blind process because there is just too much non-functional gibberish to wade through. Axe looked at proteins of modest length (150 residues) and published his results in the Journal of Molecular Biology.29 He found that the ratio of functional proteins to non-functional gibberish was 1 in 1074. He found that the odds of getting a protein with a particular function was 1 in 1077. That’s one protein capable of
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