You mean... Theres something to that evolution stuff after all?
. . . . .
Absolutely. A bacterium morphed into a bacterium.
Again!
It just gets more exciting with every report.
Again!
It just gets more exciting with every report.
Your comment would be more meaningful if "bacterium" was all one species, or even one genus. But that's not the case. Check out the following table:
Name of Phylum | Number of Species | Number of Genera |
Aquificae | 27 | 12 |
Xenobacteria | 29 | 11 |
Chrysogenetes | 1 | 1 |
Thermomicrobia | 13 | 6 |
Cyanobacteria | 78 | 62 |
Chlorobia | 17 | 6 |
Proteobacteria | 1644 | 366 |
Firmicutes | 2474 | 255 |
Planctomycetes etc. | 13 | 5 |
Spirochaetes | 92 | 13 |
Fibrobacter | 5 | 3 |
Bacteroids | 130 | 20 |
Flavobacteria | 72 | 15 |
Sphingobacteria | 76 | 22 |
Fusobacteria | 29 | 6 |
Verrucomicrobia | 5 | 2 |
Here’s something to ponder: e.Coli, a bacteria with several varieties, divides about every 15 minutes. Now imagine how many generations that would be over the past hundred years.
Of course it’s been around much longer but this is a nice round figure. Back of an envelope calculation, A hundred years of e. Coli generations is like about a hundred million years of human generations.
And yet after all these millions of generations Mr. e. Coli is just a bacterium. I don’t think he’s ever going to be anything else.