Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Beyond Reasonable Doubt #1 - The Lenski Experiments

A look on the long term study of e coli evolution in the lab. Dr Richard Lenski and his team have spent 20 years (working with around 45,000 generations of e coli) scrupulously experimenting and documenting their findings on how competition for limited resources results in natural selection of beneficial mutations within the population.

2 comments:

  1. I appreciate you sharing so many thought provoking videos with us. What do you think of this article I just came upon?
    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/does-reason-know-what-it-is-missing/?ref=global-home

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  2. I recognise the name Jürgen Habermas but I can't recall anything he has written wich I have read.

    Jürgen Habermas is not a person of direct influence to me or my opions.


    I am not fond of reading a person telling what another person have said/written.

    A lot is lost in translations and I am terrible at German.

    In this case there is both a translator from German to English and then a person (Stanley Fish) interpreting on what Jürgen Habermas thinks.

    Thats bad to re-comment on.


    I like this Richard Dawkins calls for arrest of Pope Benedict XVI

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