The Current Status of Ewert's Dependency Graph of Life

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@John_Harshman

Let me suggest another weakness of Ewert’s scheme: his “modules” are not functional units but are purely ad hoc sets of genes that have the same taxonomic distribution, and even that depends on his tiny taxonomic sample.

That came up already. Though we don’t know for sure. I suggested that he could build support by showing they were functional modules. He had not yet looked into this.