A thousand trillion possible mistakes in a human embryo

If an embryo were built from a blueprint of a design, not generated by an adaptive process, there would inevitably be one thousand trillion mistakes. Because of its history as a generated structure, there are virtually none.

#book/The Nature of Order/2 The process of creating life/6 Generated structure#

Notes mentioning this note

Book 2 Cliff Notes
[[Living processes]]

Here are all the notes in this garden, along with their links, visualized as a graph.