Wednesday 15 June 2022

Old Mutations drive evolution?

 





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Joel Kontinen

 

Bacteria can teach us whether  evolutions is true or not. Recently, resrarchers found out that after “2,000 generations, with bacteria suggests existing variation makes a smaller contribution to evolution than they had thought.”

Now, new mutations in evolution “quickly won out” and all due to new mutations due to new mutations and all further evolution was, says Minako Izutsu at Michigan State University.,

Source:

 Le Page, Michael. 2022. Bacteria bred for 2000 generations settle long-term evolution mystery New scientist 14 June