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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Joshua Lederberg "straightens" out 1950s bacteria - rescuing them from Henry Dawson's necrophilia label !

Joshua Lederberg loved to say how in the late 1940s and early 1950s, everybody (but him) thought that bacteria were asexual plants.

He soon straightened them and the bacteria out : he demonstrated that (once in about a billion go-a-rounds in a few strains of) bacteria have normal man-on-top sex just like animals and humans.