More of Your Flagellum Questions Answered (Halftime part 2)
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Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Viewer Question: What is the difference between co-option and recruitment? Where is the line and what is the purpose of having two specific categories for something that seems similar. Viewer Comment: I've just thought of something: The term "Irreducibly complex" doesn't necessarily mean "irreversibly complex" Viewer Comment: Think what it means for that dog breed Lundehund to evolve ear control. It means lundehunds that couldn’t close their ears died off. Or, the breeders selectively chose ear closing dogs to breed. Either way, fascinating Viewer Comment: …citing the Taylor study is a classic software versus hardware bait-and-switch. That experiment showed a regulatory rewire—a software tweak that turned on a pre-existing, 40-protein factory already sitting in the DNA. It did absolutely nothing to explain the structural origination of the hardware itself. Peter: So... double the horn-gene, double the horns? Philipe: I
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