305. Chatting with E. coli: Cultural Differences

You are thinking "wait a second, you can't just evolve resistance to stuff. Individuals don't evolve, species do."

Typically, that's a fair characterization of evolution. But bacteria have a lot of horizontal gene transfer, so you can evolve your very own antibiotic resistance just by borrowing the right plasmid from a buddy bacteria.

Another example of evolution on an individual basis is Pokemon.

Whoops! I meant Pokémon.