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That is a very cool experiment and a fantastic read! It reminds me of my own adventures making yogurt, each generation carried forward to the next batch. Being
by koolba 6y ago
That is a very cool experiment and a fantastic read!
It reminds me of my own adventures making yogurt, each generation carried forward to the next batch. Being able to freeze the samples (for the ecoli, not the yogurt!) is really neat. At anytime they rewind the clock to test an ancestor.
- flobosg 6y agoOr, as Stephen Jay Gould said, replaying life’s tape.
- Ericson2314 6y agoThe Wikipedia rabbit hole did lead to me Stephen Jay Gould too, who I wasn't acquainted with (except for possibility a similar Wikipedia rabbit hole a decade prior whenever I first read about the experiment). Having recently read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity_economics, the parallels with the things Stephen Jay Gould argued about are fascinating.