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http://phys.org/news/2013-09-functioning-mechanical-gears-nature.html
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a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing 'teeth' that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal's legs when it launches into a jump.
The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent. Scientists say this is the "first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure".
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Perhaps next they will find a bug with gears and wheels?
Originally posted by humyI can see creationists jumping on this like a dog on a bone🙂
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-functioning-mechanical-gears-nature.html
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a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing 'teeth' that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal's legs when it launches into a jump.
The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms pr ...[text shortened]... gical structure".
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Perhaps next they will find a bug with gears and wheels?
My question is, can they find precursors to this form? Maybe somewhere there is a million year old bug in amber.....
