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If it was so simple to do in 60 days I wonder why they don't question the several billion years.

• Sandman 15y ago
  What do you mean? Obviously, multicellular life forms did evolve in those several billion years.
  • tintin 15y ago
    From the article: "An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days." When these transitions only took 60 days, why not take another look at the 'several billion years'? Maybe life did form much faster under certain conditions.
    • Sandman 15y ago
      Ah. Sorry, I didn't quite understand you the first time. Maybe life did form much faster under certain conditions. You mean multicellular life here, obviously. Yeah, as the experiment shows, it probably did form fast under the right conditions. It's all about genes. If being a part of a multicellular organism allows one cell's genes to spread more rapidly, than that cell is going to have an incentive to be in a group.