James Tour
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Now, there have been experiments like Linsky.
What he's done is he's looked at bacteria.
Bacteria can multiply every 20 minutes.
So with a person, it might be every 20 years.
Bacteria multiply every 20 minutes, and this is why you can feel fine right now, and then after a few hours, you're like, wow, I feel terrible, I gotta go home, because this bacteria is doubling, doubling every 20 minutes, doubling every 20 minutes.
It doubles its population, that's what bacteria do.
And so he has studied since 1988 and continues to this day studying the multiplication of bacteria and putting it under certain stresses to see what's going to evolve.
He's never seen a body plan change, nowhere close.
The only thing he's seen is a little change in a citrate operation.
And I've done a podcast on that with one of my colleagues who is a
who is a biologist, and he talks about how that changed, what was actually in the bacteria was already there, and it just turned that gene back on.
It's just a regulatory thing.
But in any case, yet no body plan changes.
We've never seen the macro evolution, the body plan change, never has been seen.
And here, we had what was equivalent in bacteria,
to two million years of population changes.
Two million years.
And we've never seen that.
And so what we see, and we don't even see in the fossil record this, what we see is the Cambridge explosion.
The Cambridge explosion...
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