When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution ... like Richard Lenski and Paul Turner are tracking the evolution of bacteria and viruses over a matter of weeks, or even days.

Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity ... It was a group of organisms thought to have been bacteria. Through a microscope, they looked like ...

The team found living specimens of the tiny sulfur-eating bacteria in question off the ... This discovery fits perfectly with Darwin’s theory of evolution because it demonstrates an organism ...

from microscopic bacteria to the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever live. Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution in the mid-1800s. Evolution works ...

The bacteria-first theory, also known as the reductive hypothesis ... challenged microbiologists' longstanding theories on ...

Using an accelerated arms race between bacteria and viruses ... the Galapagos Islands that Darwin studied in forming his theory of evolution, Postdoctoral Scholar Joshua Borin and Associate ...

New research indicates that the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, have evolved to become less deadly over centuries, enabling ...

Point mutations are often thought of as the raw material of evolution; these small changes ... us insights into the evolutionary pressures on bacterial pathogens.

Apr. 3, 2025 — Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through ...