Description
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What good is half a flagellum? It’s the kind of question that sounds like a knockout punch until you learn one overlooked rule about how evolution builds complex things.
In this episode, we follow the clues and watch that question unravel.
Further reading:
Flagella evolution: https://academic.oup.com/femsre/article/44/3/253/5800988
Draco flight: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189573
Cloacal Gills: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49515000_The_importance_of_the_cloacal_bursae_as_the_primary_site_of_aquatic_respiration_in_the_freshwater_turtle_Elseya_albagula
Experimental Evolution: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700655v1