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Observing Evolution

This is very cool.  A team of researchers have observed E. Coli bacteria for over 40,000 generations and have been able to observe spontaneous, adaptive mutations (a.k.a.: evolution) of the samples.  While this doesn’t prove evolution, it is an excellent example of good science.  From what I can tell, the experiment was quite rigorous, with samples being kept from about every 500 generations or so.  As I said, very cool.

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