JPC qd
1 min readAug 24, 2017

Thank you for tour answer.

I see two elements which I am unsure about.

A — Do we really know the estimated base pairs of species living a few billion of years ago ? Is the extrapolation made from their current representatives something reasonably reliable ?

B — De we know if the pre-life and early life diversification/ complexification speed is comparable to current/ recent life ?

I understand from the graph with semilogarithmic coordonates that a correlation (which seems to be quite strong) appears when we use a logarithm base 10.

I am not a mathematician. I guess that we can obtain different curves with different log bases.

If the numbers of base pairs were possibly different for early « As », and/or if the diversification/ complexification speed was different for « B », then could it be considered that another kind of logarithm base could still show a strong correlation which could imply a (at least partial) Earth origin ?

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science doesn’t know anything, so the math just adds to that.
Life comes from out of this dimension, it comes into this dimension and with the available tools and materials makes itself various forms, not all of them on a planet, some just out there.
As for your questions, I have no idea about log10 or any other log

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