really. well then. how would a broken gear work? or what would be the macro-evolutionary purpose of a broken gear?
Not a broken gear, but a simpler locking mechanism, where a tooth on each leg cantilever off one another to ensure more coordinated jumping. One or two teeth might be better than no teeth, and four teeth better than two teeth. I'm obviously speculating here, but while cool this doesn't seem any different from any other complex biological structure.
I’ve seen this kind of debate before. One could come up with fancy explanations for how one such feature might appear. However when one has to ask for thousands of them to appear... it’s like asking to win not one Powerball, but 1000 successive Powerballs.
I yielded long ago to the obvious. There is a God.