Evolution in a lab

If you don’t believe in evolution, don’t read the rest of this blog.

Otherwise, check out this article. It discusses how an experiment was conducted on the evolution of E. coli bacteria in a tightly controlled lab environment. It helps having a species that reproduces very rapidly, but the experiment has been going on for 20 years (over 30,000 generations for E. coli). Ultimately some of the isolated bacteria evolved into something that can eat a chemical that normal E. coli cannot giving them a huge evolutional advantage.

Fascinating stuff…