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An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The findings are published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists examined sulfur bacteria, microorganisms that are too small to see with the unaided eye, that are 1.8 billion years old and were preserved in rocks from Western Australia's coastal waters. Using cutting-edge technology, they found that the bacteria look the same as bacteria of the same region from 2.3 billion years ago—and that both sets of ancient bacteria are indistinguishable from modern sulfur bacteria found in mud off of the coast of Chile.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-scientists-hasnt-evolved-billion-years.html
[Abstract]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/27/1419241112
(Score: 5, Informative) by bootsy on Tuesday February 03 2015, @07:11PM
If you get a chance visit Down House
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/home-of-charles-darwin-down-house/ [english-heritage.org.uk]
You will not only see a yearly recreation of some of his experiments he did in his own huge back garden but also a discussion of the internal battle that the Christian Charles had with these ideas and their implications. He kept from publishing them for a very long time and his wife had huge issue with them. He didn't just come up with this stuff one day. A awful lot of research was done. A modern day scientist in a University would never have been given this long to see through an idea.