Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, And The Fut... -

Predicting how pests adapt to pesticides is crucial for our food supply.

In a lab at Michigan State University, researchers have tracked more than 60,000 generations of E. coli . While most colonies evolved similarly, one famously developed the ability to eat citrate—a "lucky" mutation that others missed, supporting Gould's idea of chance. Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Fut...

While these were once purely philosophical thought experiments, Losos shows that we can now test them using . He takes readers from laboratory flasks to remote islands to meet the scientists "rewinding the tape" in real-time: Predicting how pests adapt to pesticides is crucial