{"id":84858,"date":"2018-11-18T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-evolutionary-importance-of-neutral-vs-adaptive-genes"},"modified":"2018-11-18T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:22:27","slug":"the-evolutionary-importance-of-neutral-vs-adaptive-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-evolutionary-importance-of-neutral-vs-adaptive-genes","title":{"rendered":"The Evolutionary Importance of Neutral vs. Adaptive Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-evolutionary-importance-of-neutral-vs-adaptive-genes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations over adaptive ones in DNA. Real genomic data challenge that assumption.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/quanta-neutral-vs-adaptive-evolution\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/quanta-neutral-vs-adaptive-evolution\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations over adaptive ones in DNA. Real genomic data challenge that assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84858","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}