{"id":164976,"date":"2023-06-01T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/fish-evolution-takes-place-in-decades-not-millions-of-years"},"modified":"2023-06-01T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:30:31","slug":"fish-evolution-takes-place-in-decades-not-millions-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/fish-evolution-takes-place-in-decades-not-millions-of-years","title":{"rendered":"Fish evolution takes place in decades \u2014 not millions of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fish-evolution-takes-place-in-decades-not-millions-of-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given this new information humans could modify their genetic code to rapidly accelerate their evolution aswell leading to a biological singularity of evolution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Codfish have been telling a story of rapid fish evolution, reshaped by human activity more swiftly than previously assumed, reveals a cutting-edge study led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/\">Rutgers University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This evolutionary tale, illuminated during the latter half of the twentieth century, signifies the impact of human-driven overfishing. The findings suggest that evolutionary changes, once thought to span millions of years, can be catalyzed within mere decades.<\/p>\n<p>The report, sharing the first genomic evidence of such accelerated evolution in Atlantic cod, has recently been published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rstb.2022.0190\"><em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given this new information humans could modify their genetic code to rapidly accelerate their evolution aswell leading to a biological singularity of evolution. Codfish have been telling a story of rapid fish evolution, reshaped by human activity more swiftly than previously assumed, reveals a cutting-edge study led by Rutgers University. This evolutionary tale, illuminated during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,412,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164976","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}