A CSIC-led study finds that certain components of breast milk are linked to fewer antibiotic-resistance genes in babies’ gut microbiota.

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    2 days ago

    What evolutionary advantage does preventing antibiotic resistance provide?

    I can’t believe that you actually asked this question…

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      Antibiotics were discovered just 98 years ago. Prior to that bacteria and fungi only used them against each other. So evolutionarily, what’s the point? To modify an outcome that’ll be experienced in thousands of years? That’s not how evolution works