![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090507195353im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Darwin in a Test Tube
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April 29, 2009
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A group of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has set up the microscopic equivalent of the Galapagos Islands--an artificial ecosystem inside a test tube where molecules evolve to exploit distinct ecological niches, similar to the finches that Charles Darwin famously described in "The Origin of the Species" 150 years ago.
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Source Scripps Research Institute
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