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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: 1) by art guerrilla on Wednesday February 04 2015, @02:07AM
"Showing that there are various life forms that share similarities and differences doesn't mean anything. Cars and bikes share similarities and differences yet no one would assume they, by themselves, evolved from one another or a common ancestor."
um, bad example, because that is EXACTLY the case: pneumatic tires came from bikes, essential for cars... *many* bike shops experimented with all sorts of car-like vehicles before they -*ahem*- 'evolved' (sic) into cars as we know them...
perhaps you've even heard tell of a certain set of bike-making brothers who took it a step further...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 04 2015, @02:44AM
No it's a good example. They didn't 'evolve' all on their own through unguided forces, they were put together and assembled.