Description
Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly
Learn More:
Paper on flagella evolution: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32149348/
Paper on diffusion inside a cell (see Video S2 in the supporting information): https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000694#s5
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’d like to ask whether the “observed abilities of evolution” categories (optimization, co-option, duplication, recruitment) presented in your videos are something you developed for didactic purposes, or if there is any literature you could recommend that explores this framework in a similar way. I’d love to read more about it.
Alex:
In the mega-plate evolution experiment, did they run it multiple times? In any instance of the experiment, did bacteria fail to evolve full antibiotic resistance?
Shai:
A question related to the falsifiability of evolutionary theory: Is there any structure you could look at and say definitively that evolution could not make it?