It's the beautiful evolution of a girl into a leader as she matures under very extraordinary circumstances.
Beautiful evolution-development and population genetics research has come from using C. elegans, related Caenorhabditis species, and other nonparasitic nematodes such as Pristionchus pacificus.
"It's a beautiful accident of evolution," says Philip A. Beachy, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Johns Hopkins University and one of the key players in this genetic detective story.
The Butterfly Bar Unlike all the other "new" bars that pop up fully-formed as douche monsters, the Butterfly Bar had a beautiful and lovely evolution.
But the best came from Maggie Gyllenhaal, who made a beautiful observation about the evolution of women in television: "What I see actually, are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not, sometimes sexy and sometimes not, sometimes honourable and sometimes not.
"This is a beautiful example of how evolution works, creating novelty by modifying existing developmental programs," says Michalis Averof, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Heraklion, Greece, who wasn't involved in the research.
"This is a major breakthrough and a beautiful example of convergent evolution where vertebrates at least five times have independently evolved" this ability "by modifying different cell types to serve the same function".
The current story represents a beautiful example of convergent evolution in which the same weapon has arisen in both bacterial pathogens and their animal hosts.
It seems clear that these two systems have evolved independently in eukaryotic and bacterial species, in a beautiful example of convergent evolution.
