Comments by "" (@snowcat9308) on "Behind the Bastards" channel.

  1. Evolution didn't stop. Species are currently evolving as we speak, but the process is very slow--especially for complex species with generations that take decades. If only there was some kind of creature that had a new generation every few hours; like a bacteria or something. Yeah! Then we could expose those bacteria to antibiotics (selection pressure) for a day, and see which ones are resistant to it (and which ones don't survive). Then, at the end of the day, we could take some of the surviving bacteria, and freeze them for later analysis. Then, we could rinse and repeat with our bacteria, freezing a small portion of those bacteria every day, so that we had a start-to-finish record of genetic changes that happened to those bacteria. Man.. if we had started this on.. oh I dunno.. February 24th, 1988, it would have been running for 36 years, 5 months, and 29 days (as of this comment)! I would probably call it the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE), but I'm sure they would have thought of a better name. Oh well! I guess we'll never know if speciation actually happens.
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