>Some, but not all flys in the Genus Ormia have this fully developed typanic
>membrane system. What is interesting in the paper is that they look at the
>close relative of Ormia and find that although they are also parasatoid
>they do NOT locate hosts by sound yet they have various portions of what is
>a complete ear in the Ormia but are not using it to "hear" their host.
you should double-check what Behe means by "irreducibly compex." If the
close relative has a reduced version of the ear, the the ear can be reduced
and is not, therefore, irreducible.
Susan
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