(April 6, 2013 at 12:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: However we are not out of the woods yet. I mainly want to know how "An ion-powered pump for expelling substances from the cell might then have mutated to form the basis of a rotary motor" is possible without direction towards that? Or does it get improved in expelling substances until it forms a rotary motor?
Why would direction be required? It's not as though the bacterium were sitting around going "hey fellas, got any ideas for how we might effect a rudimentary rotary motor?"
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