{"id":161941,"date":"2023-04-11T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/evolution-and-development-from-simple-animals-to-humans-via-ancestral-gene-networks"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:23:30","slug":"evolution-and-development-from-simple-animals-to-humans-via-ancestral-gene-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/evolution-and-development-from-simple-animals-to-humans-via-ancestral-gene-networks","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and Development from Simple Animals to Humans via Ancestral Gene Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evolution and Development from Simple Animals to Humans via Ancestral Gene Networks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEDQaZ0VtPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/\">http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/<\/a>) Animal development is directed by a genetic toolkit shared by all animals \u2014 from fruit flies to frogs to human beings \u2014 rather than different animals having different genetic toolkits. UCLA Professor of Biological Chemistry Edward De Robertis explains that the field of evolutionary development (or Evo-Devo) seeks to understand how so many beautiful animal forms evolved through the use of the original genetic toolkit of the last common ancestor of all animals, urbilateria, which existed at least 560 million years ago. Recorded on 10.25.2016. Series: \u201cUCLA Faculty Research Lectures\u201d [12\/2016] [Science] [Show ID: 31409].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Visit: http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/) Animal development is directed by a genetic toolkit shared by all animals \u2014 from fruit flies to frogs to human beings \u2014 rather than different animals having different genetic toolkits. UCLA Professor of Biological Chemistry Edward De Robertis explains that the field of evolutionary development (or Evo-Devo) seeks to understand how so many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}