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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 03 2015, @04:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the same-old-same-old dept.

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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday February 03 2015, @07:39PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Tuesday February 03 2015, @07:39PM (#140811)

    Everything wants to be people, and people want to be people with little bodies and big brains with skulls that are contoured to match the brains. This is just as movies and Josh Feuerstein taught me!

    Next you'll be telling me devolution isn't a thing and that Cartoon Network only runs stuff like The Boondocks late night.

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