Evolution illustrated first-hand (Science)

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What like this?

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014...LEOSWH>2.0.CO;2-T&origin=crossref&cookieSet=1

 

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No I read recently about observed evolutionary changes in mosquitos but stupidly didn't write down the reference. It was an extract from a book actually but then I lost the paper it was in and couldn't remember the book title (doh!). Anyway it must be based on the original scientific research so I was hoping that somebody here would have a reference.

 

Yes it's good but I want MORE!! Now give me the title of the book I seek? I demand it. It had a photo of a mossy on the front, er and a flower I think

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And this should be in biology.

 

Bells,

I wonder if they are morphologically different as well, nothing beats a proof the involves pulling out a hideous underground mutant and comparing to its relatively normal sunshine counterpart.

Hear that SAM, move it!

 

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Should I post the html text?

 

Sorry I'm proxying through my universities account. See if you can find a public version of:

Laboratory Experiments on Speciation: What Have We Learned in 40 Years?
William R. Rice, Ellen E. Hostert
Evolution, Vol. 47, No. 6 (Dec., 1993), pp. 1637-1653
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution

 

Perhaps i missed something. Did the bacteria turn into a mouse?

You see, unless it is some change along those lines the of course it is evolution just not in the way some people here are claiming. I would say it is like comparing apples to oranges.

Evolution:

# development: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of ...
# (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

 

All off topic discussion deleted. Please keep the discussion about Biology

 

Apparently this is off topic, for some reason, but maybe it will stay up long enough to be read:

It was "some change along those lines". It was a dramatic evolutionary split into a different kind of bacterium. Sort of like turning into a different kind of insect, one that could eat much different food.

 

That is where we disagree. I cannot see why you would say there was change "along those lines".

To be clear, I am not discounting the importance of research on bacteria. They will continue to hold many mysteries to us and are significant to unlocking the secrets of life. Bacteria=the building blocks of life.

 

What the paper described is the evolution of a novel trait. Observed macroevolution, so to say, though in the realms of prokaryotes the borders between macro and microevolution are even fuzzier than normal. In principle in a few human lifetimes, with the good design even maybe shorter) one could observe speciation in bacteria. However to see transition as big as from prokaryote to eukaryote (not to mention something as complex as a mouse) would be almost impossible. If the phylogenetic analyses are correct this transition only happened once up until now in the billion years of evolution.

 

Thanks for the move back to B&G.