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[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team, including Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, and, Debbie Kelley of the University of Washington, Seattle, has published their findings on microbial evolution in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>, which does not support Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in“Lost City”over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hydrothermal field is very similar to the hot spring system in the earlier earth, which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes important clues to understand the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. Geochemistry team of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, spent five years clarifying the behaviors of uranium-series isotopes in Lost City and developing a reliable and precise U-Th dating method for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings suggest diverse survival strategy of these microorganisms. The dominant species varies from one another with different environments, however, the micro-biodiversity was not significantly altered. Microorganisms could remain rare for over 1,000 years before completely turning the tables to become dominant when environmental conditions changed. This observation of 1,200-year micro-bioevolution, supporting the Rare Biosphere Model, does not follow Darwin's ideas, such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. This surprising microdiversity in hydrothermal chimneys of Lost City may also create an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.


Contact Information:
Chuan-Chou huan-Chou (River) SHEN, Associate Professor, High-precision mass spectrometry and environment change lab (HISPEC), National Taiwan Un
iversity. (Tel) 886-2-3366-5878, (Fax) 886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw


Further Information:
<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team, including Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, and, Debbie Kelley of the University of Washington, Seattle, has published their findings on microbial evolution in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>, which does not support Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in“Lost City”over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hydrothermal field is very similar to the hot spring system in the earlier earth, which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes important clues to understand the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. Geochemistry team of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, spent five years clarifying the behaviors of uranium-series isotopes in Lost City and developing a reliable and precise U-Th dating method for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings suggest diverse survival strategy of these microorganisms. The dominant species varies from one another with different environments, however, the micro-biodiversity was not significantly altered. Microorganisms could remain rare for over 1,000 years before completely turning the tables to become dominant when environmental conditions changed. This observation of 1,200-year micro-bioevolution, supporting the Rare Biosphere Model, does not follow Darwin's ideas, such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. This surprising microdiversity in hydrothermal chimneys of Lost City may also create an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.


Contact Information:
Chuan-Chou huan-ChoShen, SHEN, -Chou (River) SHEN, ssociate Professor, High-precision mass spectrometry and environment change lab (HISPEC), National Taiwan Un
iversity. (Tel) 886-2-3366-5878, (Fax) 886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw


Further Information:
<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team, including Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, and, Debbie Kelley of the University of Washington, Seattle, has published their findings on microbial evolution in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>, which does not support Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in“Lost City”over the past 1200 years.

Lost City Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hydrothermal field is very similar to the hot spring system in the earlier earth, which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes important clues to understand the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. Geochemistry team of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, spent five years clarifying the behaviors of uranium-series isotopes in Lost City and developing a reliable and precise U-Th dating method for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings suggest diverse survival strategy of these microorganisms. The dominant species varies from one another with different environments, however, the micro-biodiversity was not significant . altered. Microorganisms could remain rare for over 1,000 years before completely turning the tables to become dominant when environmental conditions changed. This observation of 1,200-year micro-bioevolution, supporting the Rare Biosphere Model, does not follow Darwin's ideas, such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. This surprising microdiversity in hydrothermal chimneys of Lost City may also create an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.


Contact Information:
Chuan-Chou huan-ChoShen, -Chou (River) SHEN, ssociate Professor, High-precision mass spectrometry and environment change lab (HISPEC), National Taiwan Un
iversity. (Tel) 886-2-3366-5878, (Fax) 886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw


Further Information:
<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University of Washington, Seattle, <i>et al.</i>, has published their findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolutionary theory in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hydrothermal field is very similar to the hot spring system in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, <i>viz</i>., U-Th dating, for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
TU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team, including Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, and, Debbie Kelley of the University of Washington, Seattle, has published their findings on microbial evolution in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>, which does not support Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in“Lost City”over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hydrothermal field is very similar to the hot spring system in the earlier earth, which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes important clues to understand the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. Geochemistry team of the Department of Geosciences, NTU, spent five years clarifying the behaviors of uranium-series isotopes in Lost City and developing a reliable and precise U-Th dating method for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings suggest diverse survival strategy of these microorganisms. The dominant species varies from one another with different environments, however, the micro-biodiversity was not significantly altered Microorganisms could remain rare for over 1,000 years before completely turning the tables to become dominant when environmental conditions changed. This observation of 1,200-year micro-bioevolution, supporting the Rare Biosphere Model, does not follow Darwin's ideas, such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. This surprising microdiversity in hydrothermal chimneys of Lost City may also create an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.


Contact Information:
Chuan-Chou (River) Shen, Associate Professor,High-precision mass spectrometry and environment change lab (HISPEC), National Taiwan University.
(Tel) 886-2-3366-5878, (Fax) 886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw
886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw


Further Information:
<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University of Washington, Seattle, <i>et al.</i>, has published their findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolutionary theory in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City y st City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chot spring system hydrothermal field l field is very similarone hot spring system system in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, <i>viz</i>., U-Th dating, for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
886-2-3365-1917, river@ntu.edu.tw


Further Information:
<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Participates in the “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolution Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University Of Washington, Seattle, <i>et al.</i>, has published findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolution theory in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hot spring system is very similar to the one in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there cintributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, <i>viz</i>., U-Th dating, for the hot spring system. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Research Team Participates in “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Theory (<a href=http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,4014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University of Washington, Seattle, <i>et al.</i>, has published their findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolutionary theory in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hot spring system is very similar to the one in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there contributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, <i>viz</i>., U-Th dating, for the specific hot spring system in Lost City. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
rs ago.
886-2-3365-1917<a href=http://www.lostcity.washington.edu/index.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
dex.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Participates in the “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolution Theory (<a href==http://mepopedia.com/forum/read.php?127,40144014>Chinese Version</a>)

<i>NTU Newsletter</i> (Issue 993) & <i>udn.com</i> (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University Of Washington, Seattle, <i>et al.</i>, has published findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolution theory in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</i>. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hot spring system is very similar to the one in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there cintributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, <i>viz</i>., U-Th dating, for the hot spring system. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
rs ago.
886-2-3365-1917dex.html>Lost City Expedition Website</a>
<a href=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=993&sn=9190>NTU Newsletter Issue 993</a> (Chinese)
<a href=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5370519.shtml>Udn.com 2010/01/17</a> (Chinese)

[International Cooperation][Life Sciences] NTU Participates in the “Lost City” International Cooperation Project, Posing a Challenge to Darwin's Evolution Theory (Chinese Version)

NTU Newsletter (Issue 993) & udn.com (2010/01/17) The international research team including NTU's Department of Geosciences Associate Professor Chuan-Chou SHEN, Debbie Kelly from University Of Washington, Seattle, et al., has published findings on microbial evolution against Darwin's evolution theory in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. This is the first time in the history of science using U-Th dating and genomic analysis to investigate the details of the evolving process of the rare biosphere in “Lost City” over the past 1200 years.

Lost City is located at the ocean bed of the North Atlantic near 30 degrees north latitude. Its carbonate chimneys hot spring system is very similar to the one in the earlier earth which was produced by the reaction of inorganic minerals and sea water. Thus the microbes' propagation there cintributes clues to know about the origin of life, the earlier evolution and its principles. The team has spent five years developing methods to identify the uranium-series isotope nuclide in Lost City and its principles of change, and has succeeded in a proper dating method, viz., U-Th dating, for the hot spring system. The findings of the team suggest that the rich variations among the microbial clusters caused by the environmental factors do not influence their diverse survival strategies, i.e., albeit the dominant species vary from one another, the number of the species does not significantly change and the biodiversity remains. This contradicts many of Darwin's ideas such as that species are multiplied from single species, that complicated mechanisms are developed from simple ones, and that new species are descended from and replacing the old ones. The suggested Rare Biosphere Model not only poses an alternative theory against Darwin but also creates an opportunity to depict the life development several billion years ago.
rs ago.
886-2-3365-1917dex.html>Lost City Expedition Website
NTU Newsletter Issue 993 (Chinese)
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