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Photo: Richard Lenski, via Veritasium (screen shot).

Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution

Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.” Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
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Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›
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Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
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Richard Lenski, by Zachary Blount [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons

Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!

Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones. Read More ›

Richard Lenski and Citrate Hype — Now Deflated

For more than 25 years, Lenski's lab has grown a dozen lines of the bacterium E. coli in small culture flasks. Read More ›

Hype from New Scientist Aside, Lenski’s E. coli Research Shows Evolution of Nothing New

The pro-Darwin media love to print triumphalist articles, declaring on the thinnest of evidence that "creationists" are deathly scared of the latest science. Read More ›

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