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.

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 ...

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 ...

But the established theory tells us that adaptation should ... reset the flasks every day and observe the ongoing evolution of the Lenski bacteria. The latest study was published in the journal ...

Above: On left is a petri dish with equal numbers of colonies of two different bacteria. But over time, after competition and evolution ... Evolutionary theory would suggest that, even in the ...

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 ...

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

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 arms race between a virus and the bacteria it attacks ... a difficult question about evolution: Where do new traits come from? According to evolutionary theory, natural selection can favor ...