But for years researchers have tried to put evolution on fast-forward in the test tube.
Belcher now runs evolution on fast-forward but under different conditions, trying to make new materials as amazing as an abalone shell that are more useful for humans.
After surveying the "wrong place" argument with examples of how weeds can "insinuate the idea of wild nature into places otherwise shorn of it" (bluebells and purple loosestrife), and celebrating Darwin's conviction that weeds are often "examples of evolution on the fast track", he goes back to the beginning of things to create his larger picture.
The purpose of presenting them is twofold: (1) to highlight the advantage of the proposed initial condition concept especially on those machines and (2) to give a proof of concept mapping of this fast evolution on two totally differently organized (virtual and physical) many-core machines.
Phenotypic evolution on island populations can be fast under strong natural selection [ 3, 9, 16, 36- 38].
The first step of our analysis procedure is to transform the branch lengths to allow for our models to take into account global species-specific effects (e.g. the faster rate of evolution on the lineages of mice and rats compared to larger longer-lived mammals such as humans).
With Acorus included (Figs. 2I and 2L), it also shows monocots as monophyletic, consistent with a large body of evidence [ 7, 35, 41- 43, 63], and depicts faster chloroplast DNA evolution on the monocot lineage leading to grasses than in the Acorus lineage, also consistent with a substantial body of evidence (e.g. [ 9, 44]).
Of course, evolution on the World Wide Web is happening so fast that generalizations get out of date quickly, and even dodo birds get lucky sometimes.
The change in Tafel slope (∂E/∂log i) suggests that the hydrogen evolution on the Ni-Fe-C alloy cathodes was mechanistically fastest.
His evolution on abortion was complete.
"Sort of evolution on steroids".
