Salon.com > genome http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 In experiment scientists watched evolution happen http://www.salon.com/2012/09/20/scientists_can_now_watch_evolution_happen/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/20/scientists_can_now_watch_evolution_happen/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:22:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13016795 Creationists are about to have even more scientific data to ignore. Researchers from Michigan State University have used "in-depth, genomics-based analysis" to understand how E. coli bacteria developed a mutation that allows it to digest citrate, which the bacteria normally cannot digest with oxygen present. In other words, a group of human beings has watched and outlined the process of evolution for a group of living things. This is kind of a big deal (postdoctoral researcher Zachary Blount described it as "pretty nifty"):

The experiment demonstrates natural selection at work. And because samples are frozen and available for later study, when something new emerges scientists can go back to earlier generations to look for the steps that happened along the way.

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