by S. Mar­vin Fried­man — One of the many in­ter­est­ing con­tro­ver­sies that mi­cro­bi­ol­o­gists can pon­der to­day is whether the alarm­ing pro­lif­er­a­tion of an­tibi­otic-re­sis­tant strains is pri­mar­ily a con­se­quence of the wide­spread use of an­tibi­otics in hu­mans and in an­i­mal hus­bandry. An ex­am­i­na­tion of bac­te­ria iso­lated from ter­res­trial an­i­mals in the Gala­pa­gos, a re­mote lo­ca­tion with…