Evolutionary Time Machine (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Evolutionary Time Machine

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By freezing samples of bacteria grown over tens of thousands of generations, scientists could go back in time to reconstruct how different strains evolved.

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Jeffrey Barrick/Univ. of Texas at Austin

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