"Gerald van Koeverden"  wrote in
news:btup6t$1ph3$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 

> In the December issue of the magazine "Discover", there was a short
> article on a bacteria breeding program at the Max Planck Institute by
> Velicer and Yu.  They bred a bacteria (M. anthus) to eliminate the
> pili (hairlike tubes) it needs to cooperate with other bacteria.  Then
> they just propagated this pili-less bacteria.  Within 40 days, a new
> generation had 're-invented' a brand new kind of fibrouos extension.
> 
> This sounds a lot more like Lamarckian evolution than Darwinian.


Why?


Yours,

Bill Morse
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