Re: Article: Forcing Darwin's hand: capturing natural selection in

Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:

Ready, set, mutate... and may the best microbe win
Forcing Darwin's hand: capturing natural selection in a flask

Even with modern genomic tools, it's a daunting task to find a smoking gun
for Darwinian evolution. The problem lies in being able to say not just when
and how a specific gene mutated but also how that one genetic change
translated into real-world dominance of one population over another.

That can be known only post facto.

Bob Kolker


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