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Papuan weevil has screw-in legs

3 pointsby silialmost 14 years ago

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bedigeralmost 14 years ago
Very interesting from a number of viewpoints, but...<p>They left off how such a joint would evolve. It's all nice and good to say that a screw-thread join allows better mobility in forest-floor-litter. But how does a clade go from ball-and-socket or hinges to screw-and-threads in easy, evolvable steps?