I think it’s pretty darn relevant to evolution that the means of antibiotic resistance didn’t evolve recently but were there all along. Changing allele frequency is a far different thing than creating a new allele.
Experiments were purported to have “proven” that antibiotic resistance evolves de novo. Talkorigins makes this claim in multiple places. Therein lies the dead icon.
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