Tag: sequence space
Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve
Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole.
To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle
Theologian Rope Kojonen claims that God designed the laws of nature, which then gave rise to “fine-tuned” preconditions and smooth fitness landscapes.
Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem
The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.”
Social Exclusion and the Evolution Debate
Social exclusion via refusal to engage is probably the most powerful and effective means of controlling the debate about origins within science.
Love, Chocolate, and Neutral Evolution
Neutral evolution means mutations are occurring all the time, and most of the time they are neutral, or nearly neutral.