Creating Evolutionary Change in a Laboratory

An interview in the New York Times's Science section with biologist Sinéad Collins who pushes then examines evolution in algae. But experimental evolution isn't new. She describes its pedigree:

In the 1880s, there was a guy named the Rev. William Dallinger, and he did an experiment that could be published today — it was that cool. He took microbes that could live only at temperatures under 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and over several years evolved them to live at 158 degrees!