Tag: bacteria
Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues
“Natural selection” is like a Swiss Army knife that researchers in widely different disciplines use to solve their problems.
Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution
Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.”
Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment
Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid.
Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?
For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself.
Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design
If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration.