In the News: A Complex Tail, Simply Told - talk.origins

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Martin Andersen

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From: Martin Andersen <d...@ikke.nu>

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:19:52 +0200

Local: Wed, Apr 18 2007 6:19 am

Subject: Re: In the News: A Complex Tail, Simply Told

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Jason Spaceman wrote:
> From the article:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------

> Read it at http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/417/3

> J. Spaceman

Listen.

Can you hear it?

That is the sound of their god shrinking.

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