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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Very Cool Evolution Experiment

By Ed Brayton

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Science News has a report on a very cool experiment done by Dr. Richard Lenski at Michigan State (Lenski is also with the Digital Evolution Lab at MSU, along with Rob Pennock and Wes Elsberry, but this is an experiment with real bacteria, not artificial organisms). This is a really cleverly designed test of how a mutation that does not confer a survival advantage can later be coopted by a second mutation that can be selected for. Long excerpt below the fold:

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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