>Looking for papers related to bivalve evolution, I ran across something
>relevant to the irreducible complexity issue. Melendez-Hevia, Waddell, and
>Cascante. 1996. The puzzle of the Krebs citric acid cycle: assembling the
>pieces of chemically feasible reactions, and opportunism in the design of
>metabolic pathways during evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution,
>43:293-303. The discussion of the mechanisms and functionality of the
>intermediates is sufficiantly detailed to require more review of organic
>chemistry than I am inclined to until after my dissertation is turned in.
>They also cite assorted previous papers on the evolution of this and other
>complex biochemical cycles such as the Calvin cycle.
The evolutionary origin of this and other "irreducibly complex" biochemical
systems are discussed in Kenneth Miller's new book "Finding Darwin's God"
published by Harper/Collins. He discusses the origin of the blood clotting
cascade, which is one of the systems specifically used by Behe.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
kbmill@ksu.ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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