means two wildly different things either: (1) diversity at reproduction as a function of heredity performed by DNA function (called “alleles”) and (2) outright genetic errors.
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Beneficial folds in proteins are estimated by Douglas Axe as 1 in 10^77 for a "good one" (See Levinthal Paradox)