The LTEE is pretty old, right? But it’s not even the oldest experiment at MSU, as NPR reporter Nell Greenfieldboyce explains. Link: https://www.npr.org/2012/11/23/165030844/experiments-that-keep-going-and-going-and-going

Carl Zimmer describes the work by Zack Blount, Jeff Barrick, Carla Davidson, and me to identify the genetic underpinnings of the new ability to consume… Read More »Discover Magazine: The Birth of the New, The Rewiring of the Old

Microbiologist Stan Maloy interviews Richard Lenski about the LTEE and digital evolution, in front of the “Digital Orca” in Vancouver, BC. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr8ldEeO04

Ed Yong explains work by Bob Woods, Jeff Barrick, and others on the race between “tortoise” and “hare” lineages in one of the LTEE populations.… Read More »National Geographic: Replaying Evolution Reveals the Benefits of Being Slow and Steady

Carl Zimmer reports the findings from a paper by Zack Blount, Christina Borland, and me on the unexpected evolution of the ability to consume citrate… Read More »Discover: A New Step In Evolution