Clearly, 1077 represents a huge number. To put it in context, there are only 1065 atoms in our galaxy. But could random genetic mutations effectively search a space of possibilities that large in the time available to the Cambrian explosion or even the entire history of life on earth? To answer to that question, we still need to know how many opportunities the evolutionary process would have had to search this huge number of possibilities—as Axe himself has emphasized.
