{"id":245915,"date":"2026-10-24T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/squid-are-even-more-alien-like-than-we-thought-with-an-unmatched-ability-to-change-genetic-expression"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:07:08","slug":"squid-are-even-more-alien-like-than-we-thought-with-an-unmatched-ability-to-change-genetic-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/squid-are-even-more-alien-like-than-we-thought-with-an-unmatched-ability-to-change-genetic-expression","title":{"rendered":"Squid Are Even More Alien-Like Than We Thought, With an Unmatched Ability to Change Genetic Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cephalopods like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-find-squid-are-covered-in-hair-like-cells-remarkably-similar-to-the-ones-in-human-ears\">squids<\/a> may be as close to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experts-met-at-mit-to-discuss-the-possibility-of-alien-tech-around-black-holes-heres-what-was-discussed\">alien intelligence<\/a> as we\u2019ll ever know, with a diverse evolutionary lineage from a wholly different world beneath the waves.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite our uniquely developed brains and bodies, we are all works in progress through a common process.<\/p>\n<p>Humans and other animals constantly undergo an ephemeral, reversible transcriptomic remixing through what\u2019s known as \u2018adenosine deaminase acting on RNA\u2019 or ADAR-mediated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-rna-almost-self-replicates-which-could-explain-lifes-origins\">RNA<\/a> editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cephalopods like squids may be as close to an alien intelligence as we\u2019ll ever know, with a diverse evolutionary lineage from a wholly different world beneath the waves. Yet despite our uniquely developed brains and bodies, we are all works in progress through a common process. Humans and other animals constantly undergo an ephemeral, reversible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245915","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}