> "Jason Spaceman" <notrea...@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message news:f040so$odu$1@news.datemas.de...
> > From the article:
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> > By Jennifer Cutraro
> > ScienceNOW Daily News
> > 17 April 2007

> > One of evolutionary biology's greatest challenges is deciphering the origins
> > of complex structures. Now, scientists have unraveled the steps in the
> > evolution of the bacterial flagellum, a tiny, whiplike structure used in
> > swimming and host invasion. A new study shows the flagellum is the result
> > of successive duplications of a single gene in the ancestor of today's
> > bacteria, a finding that not only answers an important question about the
> > evolution of complex structures but also provides additional ammunition to
> > counter arguments from evolution's foes.
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> > Read it at http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/417/3

> Sounds interesting.  I look forward to what the bloggers have to say about
> it, and to seeing this paper online.  Or maybe I'll make a trip to the local
> med-school library and xerox it.