A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going Strong
Nov 14, 2016•12 min
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Episode description
Early in his career, the decorated biologist Richard Lenski thought he might be forced to evolve. After his postdoctoral research grant was canceled, Lenski began to look tentatively at other options. With one child and a second on the way, Lenski attended a seminar about using specific types of data in an actuarial context—the same type of data he had worked with as a graduate student.
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