{"id":180955,"date":"2024-01-20T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-forces-that-drive-evolution-may-not-be-as-random-as-we-thought"},"modified":"2024-01-20T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:22:36","slug":"the-forces-that-drive-evolution-may-not-be-as-random-as-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-forces-that-drive-evolution-may-not-be-as-random-as-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"The Forces That Drive Evolution May Not Be as Random as We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-forces-that-drive-evolution-may-not-be-as-random-as-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The random nature of genetic mutation implies evolution is largely unpredictable. But recent research suggests this may not be entirely so, with interactions between genes playing a bigger role than expected in determining how a genome changes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s known that some areas of the genome are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-challenges-fundamental-principle-of-evolution-that-mutations-are-entirely-random\">more likely to be mutable than others<\/a>, but a new study now suggests a species\u2019 evolutionary history may play a role in making mutations more predictable too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implications of this research are nothing short of revolutionary,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/news\/evolution-is-not-as-random-as-previously-thought\">says<\/a> University of Nottingham evolutionary biologist James McInerney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The random nature of genetic mutation implies evolution is largely unpredictable. But recent research suggests this may not be entirely so, with interactions between genes playing a bigger role than expected in determining how a genome changes. It\u2019s known that some areas of the genome are more likely to be mutable than others, but a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180955","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}