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A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going Strong

A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going Strong
At first, the biologist Richard Lenski thought his long-term experiment on evolution might last for 2,000 generations. Nearly three decades and over 65,000 generations later, he's still amazed by evolution's "awesome inventiveness." The post A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going Strong appeared first on WIRED.

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