Hunt's 2007 Critique of Axe

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To build a living organism you need high interdependence of proteins and other small molecules. The interdependence is fundamental to life. The “any function will do” argument while interesting is not relevant to living organisms.

There are also a nearly infinite number of combinations of protein sequences and protein functions that can produce a network of interdependent proteins and small molecules. Testing for just one of those functions ignores all of the other possible functions.