[Marketing] Science Origins blog comment

[Chris Farnet]

After struggling a bit with their comment posting system, I managed to
post the following comment to the Science Origins blog:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/08/excitable-plants.html

Chris



By Chris Farnet on August 17, 2009 5:34 PM

Thanks for a very interesting article on a fascinating area of research.

It seems that harnessing ion flow across membranes is a very old trick
indeed - possibly one of the earliest inventions of cellular life -
and has been put to service in a vast array of functions across the
tree of life. All of this work reinforces the view that evolution is a
tinkerer, continually reusing and combining old inventions to
accomplish new feats.

Chris Farnet
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