Although evolution is usually thought to be a result of adapting to conditions in a new environment, research by students at the University of Liverpool may show otherwise. By watching how viruses evolved over hundreds of generations to infect bacteria, they noticed that when bacteria evolved defenses, viruses developed even faster to overtake them. Although this is a fairly widely accepted addition to the theory of evolution, this is the first experiment to demonstrate as much.
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