{"id":180808,"date":"2024-01-18T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unveiling-evolutions-secrets-scientists-discover-mathematical-connection-between-chickens-frogs-and-fish"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:24:49","slug":"unveiling-evolutions-secrets-scientists-discover-mathematical-connection-between-chickens-frogs-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unveiling-evolutions-secrets-scientists-discover-mathematical-connection-between-chickens-frogs-and-fish","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Evolution\u2019s Secrets: Scientists Discover Mathematical Connection Between Chickens, Frogs, and Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unveiling-evolutions-secrets-scientists-discover-mathematical-connection-between-chickens-frogs-and-fish2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the fundamental and timeless questions of life concerns the mechanics of its inception. Take human development, for example: how do individual cells come together to form complex structures like skin, muscles, bones, or even a brain, a finger, or a spine?<\/p>\n<p>Although the answers to such questions remain unknown, one line of scientific inquiry lies in understanding gastrulation \u2014 the stage at which embryo cells develop from a single layer to a multidimensional structure with a main body axis. In humans, gastrulation happens around 14 days after conception.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not possible to study human embryos at this stage, so researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ucsd\/\">University of California San Diego<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-dundee\/\">University of Dundee (UK)<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/harvard-university\/\">Harvard University<\/a> were able to study gastrulation in chick embryos, which have many similarities to human embryos at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fundamental and timeless questions of life concerns the mechanics of its inception. Take human development, for example: how do individual cells come together to form complex structures like skin, muscles, bones, or even a brain, a finger, or a spine? Although the answers to such questions remain unknown, one line of scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180808","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}