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To: VadeRetro
Fastest doubling time on record is 8 minutes, Bacillus stearothermophilus. "Typical" bacteria are usually around 1 hour doubling time. Fast eucaryotes double typically once a day.
54 posted on 04/11/2006 7:37:34 PM PDT by furball4paws (Awful Offal)
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To: furball4paws
Thanks for that. To the extent I can decipher the other replies, the bar rapidly got raised to where no reasonable rate of reproduction will suffice.

Funny how those things always go.

117 posted on 04/12/2006 9:40:20 AM PDT by VadeRetro (I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
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