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Good question – what would happen if you let bacteria evolve for 20 years?
June 5, 2008
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What would happen if you let bacteria evolve for 20 years? Here’s the answer:
From the article:
One of the most important experiments in evolution is going on right now in a laboratory in Michigan State University. A dozen flasks full of E. coli are sloshing around on a gently rocking table. The bacteria in those flasks has been evolving since 1988–for over 44,000 generations. And because they’ve been so carefully observed all that time, they’ve revealed some important lessons about how evolution works…
Somewhere right now Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are squeezing their eyes shut, plugging their ears with their fingers and screaming “LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU” as loudly as they can.