{"id":197007,"date":"2024-10-04T03:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/study-suggests-statistical-noise-affects-perceived-evolutionary-rates"},"modified":"2024-10-04T03:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:38:24","slug":"study-suggests-statistical-noise-affects-perceived-evolutionary-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/study-suggests-statistical-noise-affects-perceived-evolutionary-rates","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests statistical \u2018noise\u2019 affects perceived evolutionary rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-suggests-statistical-noise-affects-perceived-evolutionary-rates3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods\u2014say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that \u201cyounger\u201d groups of organisms, in evolutionary terms, have higher rates of speciation, extinction and body size evolution, among other differences from older ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods\u2014say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that \u201cyounger\u201d groups of organisms, in evolutionary terms, have higher rates of speciation, extinction and body size evolution, among other differences from older ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197007","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=197007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}