Optima in Evolution

[Mercer (John Mercer)]

@Giltil

The rarity in the sequence space of the 10 protein folds investigated by the authors is given in column 4 under the label SC*.

So what? That doesn’t help you; it’s a sample.

But since you’re taking this as gospel,

1. what those numbers do to Doug Axe’s extrapolation?

2. A design hypothesis would predict no correlation between the numbers of known proteins with each fold (folds do not correspond to functions) and the SC. In fact, the opposite is true, as the authors note that it is correlated with the size of a gene family. How do you explain that with a designer?