# The Current Status of Ewert's Dependency Graph of Life

**URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-current-status-of-ewerts-dependency-graph-of-life/3735
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**Tags:** Science, Design
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-current-status-of-ewerts-dependency-graph-of-life/3735 "2019-01-03T22:28:19Z")
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### Author: ![T\_aquaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/t_aquaticus/32/1249_2.png) [@T\_aquaticus](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/T_aquaticus)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-current-status-of-ewerts-dependency-graph-of-life/3735/5 "2019-01-03T22:36:07Z")

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> [@Alternatives to Modern Evolutionary Theory](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/alternatives-to-modern-evolutionary-theory/3606/132):
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> I’ll wait a bit and see what develops out of Winston Ewert’s work, et al., when it is expanded, and I expect more developments in information and the time required, since biocomplexity and biodiversity are not shrinking, nor are the numbers of the discoveries in molecular and cellular biology.

The problem with Ewert’s work is that it ignores the sequence data. He simply looked at the distribution of proteins with a given function, but he wasn’t able to explain why the sequences of those genes produced a nested hierarchy. On top of that, Ewert’s claims relied heavily on the accuracy and thoroughness of gene annotation which really can’t be relied on.

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