Biology

Long Term Evolution Experiment : evolving bacteria since 1988

What a beautiful (evolutionary hi)story : an experiment has been going on for more than thirty years at the University of Michigan. At the time, no one could have guessed how long it would last, nor the considerable importance it would have on the field of evolutionary biology. Let’s try to summarize this experiment - known as LTEE, Long Term Evolution Experiment - and its importance for the scientific community.