Got an idea to describe regulatory evolution and structural evolution

Everytime getting aware of something. I would like to discuss it with someone to make sure that I got it right. Here in McKinnon lab, it's definitely going to be Shian-ren. Today I discussed with her about the role of regulatory evolution on the small scale and structural evolution on the larger scale amongst the living beings. I just got the reminder to myself that actually this small scale and large scale is actually not only limited to the vertical dimension of species, but it's also on the horizontal dimension of traits. For example, morphological traits.

The existance of a trait would be structural evolution, or the big morphological changes. But the more complex, detailed evolution of a trait would be regulatory. How to say, oh, like the transportation tools, said me. Having Shian-ren being there clarifying something, all in a sudden this great example come into my brain. I can't wait to telling her about this, because it's so great analogy for me.

Yes, look, even though a car can have a speed range from 0 to 100 MPH, it can never arrive hundreds of MPH like the plane. Without structural evolution into plane, this high speed could never happen. However, within the category of car, there can be lot of changes across different brands or even inside a brand; these are regulatory evolution.

Wow, good, I can give this example on my proposal defense.