Selected material of particular interest to the general public on this long-term experiment
National Science Foundation special report on the “Evolution of Evolution” marking 150 years since the Publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
- Essay by Richard Lenski on “Evolution: Past, Present and Future”
- Video of interview with Richard Lenski
- Transcript of interview
Interviews at NSF and Science Podcast with Lenski and Barrick about 2011 paper on evolvability
ActionBioscience.org is an educational resource provided by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. This article provides a brief summary of the lines of evidence for evolution, including evolution in action. The second link provides a translation into Spanish
- Evolution: Fact and Theory by Richard Lenski
- Evolución: Hecho y Teoría en español
Two recent best-sellers by outstanding science writers devote almost a chapter each to this long-term experiment
- The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (2009, Simon & Schuster)
- Microcosm by Carl Zimmer (2008, Pantheon Press)
Selected recent press reports and science blogs about this long-term experiment
- New York Times, Science News, Discover, New Scientist, Nature, and msnbc report our recent findings on evolvability (March 2011)
- BEACON, an NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, is funded and announced (17 February 2010)
- Time in a Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold (MSU, October 2009)
- Arrhythmia of Tempo and Mode (Nature News & Views, October 2009)
- Evolution in the Lab (Nature podcast interview, October 2009)
- A New Step in Evolution (The Loom, June 2008)
- Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural Selection (New York Times, June 2007)