Neapolitan

Well, Evolution outside of science can be a highly debatable topic, I prefer not to favour either side of it.

What is more intriguing to me is the road not taken. What about those singular yeast cell do they also mutate but without becoming multi-cellular or are they also prone to (like you say) placidity? I think if there was a way to map the genomes every day for 60 days (time given in the article for the experiment) for both yeast A and yeast B and any other yeast that branches off to see molecular change in the DNA for each one - I might be more satisfied, for me that would be proof of something happening.

This is something I wondered about after reading the article: how many generations would it take for a single cell yeast to become multicellular yeast and if release into an environment non-conducive for multi-cellularity would they die off or survive and if they survive how many generations would it take them to revert back to singular cell form, and how much of a difference in their DNA would there be from the original yeast that was used when they began the experiment?

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