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Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold over 40,000 generations!

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Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold over 40,000 generations!
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Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold over 40,000 generations!
March 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Short article from Michigan State University on a study of 40,000 generations of the bacterial E. coli beginning in 1988. Here's some evolution happening within your lifetime!! And perhaps in your own body.....

http://news.msu.edu/story/6993/
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Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold over 40,000 generations! - by Darwinian - March 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm

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