Building a flagellum patterns: in bacteria & archaea (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 11:01 (2411 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID’s comment: It is not clear, since these two motors are so different, that there is a common ancestor or two ancestors with life starting in more than one place in more than one way. Woese believed the latter.

Purely for everyone’s information, Darwin allowed for both in his theistic conclusion (later editions of Origin): “There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one…”


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