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This is the most surprising take-away from this article and paper for me. I would have thought a simple pervasive organism like yeast would be millions of years
by ginko 9y ago
This is the most surprising take-away from this article and paper for me. I would have thought a simple pervasive organism like yeast would be millions of years old. But then again I guess there's just as brutal a competition between single celled organisms as it is for complex ones.
edit: As a homebrewer this would also mean that the best place to look for interesting wild strains of yeast for brewing might be in China.
- lostlogin 9y agoDoes it? If you apply that logic to other species I’m not sure it works. What you want is a few populations that have been cut off from the outside long ago, sharing an ancestor but evolving independently. The places I have I mind are the Galapagos island birds, Australian and New Zealand species, Rift Valley fishes and the other I’m sure exist.
- derefr 9y agoYeast probably is millions of years old; but a species being millions of years old doesn't naturally cause it to spread across the face of the Earth. Sometimes a thing evolves in a niche and can't get out of that niche (despite there being other places it could thrive) because it's surrounded on all sides by inhospitable local habitats.