{"id":162333,"date":"2023-04-17T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/we-may-finally-know-how-our-eyesight-evolved-and-its-not-from-our-branch-of-life"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:22:18","slug":"we-may-finally-know-how-our-eyesight-evolved-and-its-not-from-our-branch-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/we-may-finally-know-how-our-eyesight-evolved-and-its-not-from-our-branch-of-life","title":{"rendered":"We May Finally Know How Our Eyesight Evolved, And It\u2019s Not From Our Branch of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-finally-know-how-our-eyesight-evolved-and-its-not-from-our-branch-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evolution of the human eye has <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaophthalmology\/fullarticle\/422031\">long been considered<\/a> one of biology\u2019s more challenging mysteries, drawing debate over the sequence of steps required to turn rudimentary sensitivity to light into a complex photographic system.<\/p>\n<p>New research suggests some components of vertebrate vision may not have been shaped incrementally as their genes passed down family lines, but were \u2018stolen\u2019 from entirely different branches of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least one innovation that led to the current structure of vertebrate eyes did not occur from stepwise \u201ctinkering\u201d with genes that exist in other animals, but came from introduction of novel DNA from bacteria by horizontal gene transfer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daugherty_Lab\/status\/1645544338397577216?s=20\">explains<\/a> molecular biologist Matt Daugherty from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of the human eye has long been considered one of biology\u2019s more challenging mysteries, drawing debate over the sequence of steps required to turn rudimentary sensitivity to light into a complex photographic system. New research suggests some components of vertebrate vision may not have been shaped incrementally as their genes passed down family [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162333","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}