The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment

  • If you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution? This video is sponsored by @BountyBrand.

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    Special thanks to Prof.

    Richard Lenski and team for showing me around the lab — it is an honor to be able to witness and document such a historic science experiment.


    Thanks to Dr Zachary Blount for the help with research and setting up the competition time-lapse, Dr Nkrumah Grant for microscope images of the long-term line cells @NkrumahGrant
    Devin Lake, Kate Bellgowan, and Dr.

    Minako Izutsu for being part of this video.

    Long Live the LTEE!
    LTEE website — myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/index.html
    Intro footage courtesy of the Kishony Lab — kishony.technion.ac.il
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    References:
    Lenski, R.

    E., & Travisano, M.

    (1994).

    Dynamics of adaptation and diversification: a 10,000-generation experiment with bacterial populations.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 91(15), 6808-6814.

    ve42.co/Lenski1994
    Lenski, R.

    E., Rose, M.

    R., Simpson, S.

    C., & Tadler, S.

    C.

    (1991).

    Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli.

    I.

    Adaptation and divergence during 2,000 generations.

    The American Naturalist, 138(6), 1315-1341.

    ve42.co/Lenski1991
    Good, B.

    H., McDonald, M.

    J., Barrick, J.

    E., Lenski, R.

    E., & Desai, M.

    M.

    (2017).

    The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations.

    Nature, 551(7678), 45-50.

    ve42.co/Good2017
    Blount, Z.

    D., Borland, C.

    Z., & Lenski, R.

    E.

    (2008).

    Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(23), 7899-7906.

    ve42.co/Blount2008
    Blount, Z.

    D., Lenski, R.

    E., & Losos, J.

    B.

    (2018).

    Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape.

    Science, 362(6415).

    ve42.co/Blount2018
    Wiser, M.

    J., Ribeck, N., & Lenski, R.

    E.

    (2013).

    Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations.

    Science, 342(6164), 1364-1367.

    ve42.co/Wiser2013
    N, Scharping.

    (2019).

    How a 30-Year Experiment Has Fundamentally Changed Our View of How Evolution Works.

    Discover — ve42.co/Scharping
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    Research and Writing by by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev and Casey Rentz
    Animation by Ivy Tello
    Filmed by Derek Muller, Emily Zhang and Raquel Nuno
    Edited by Derek Muller
    Music by Jonny Hyman and from Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com
    Additional video supplied by Getty Images
    Thumbnail image courtesy of the Kishony Lab
    Produced by Casey Rentz
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