Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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Biluminescence in Bacteria
Biluminescence is a marvellous way to teach about evolution. For example, we discovered a deep sea octopus that ended up on the cover of nature because it was evolution caught in the act. That's a marvellOUS example. Another, a very nice example,. is a biluminescent bacteria. And that's within the last ten years, this discovery a. This is kind of amazing, because when i was starting out in this field, every biluminescence group you ever got together welt end up in an argument about how the bilums could have ever evolved.
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