>Thirty years and 75,000 generations — it’s a drop in the evolutionary bucket. So I would guess that if we could come back — in one million years or whatever, the bacteria probably would have extremely reduced genomes. That’s a reason to keep it going.
Can't speed up nature, though I wonder if we could add something to the medium that increases the chance of deletions.
Can't speed up nature, though I wonder if we could add something to the medium that increases the chance of deletions.