{"id":85434,"date":"2018-12-03T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/evolution-sans-mutation-discovered-in-single-celled-archaea"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:22:46","slug":"evolution-sans-mutation-discovered-in-single-celled-archaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/evolution-sans-mutation-discovered-in-single-celled-archaea","title":{"rendered":"Evolution sans mutation discovered in single-celled archaea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolution-sans-mutation-discovered-in-single-celled-archaea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just love it when the reductionists are wrong\u2026again. I can not help myself. <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-bigsmile\" title=\":D\">bigsmile<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in their single-celled counterparts, too.<\/p>\n<p>Species most often evolve through DNA mutations inherited by successive generations. A few decades ago, researchers began discovering that multicellular species can also evolve through epigenetics: traits originating from the inheritance of cellular proteins that control access to an organism\u2019s DNA, rather than genetic changes.<\/p>\n<p>Because those proteins can respond to shifts in an organism\u2019s environment, epigenetics resides on the ever-thin line between nature and nurture. Evidence for it had emerged only in eukaryotes, the multicellular domain of life that comprises animals, plants and several other kingdoms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-evolution-sans-mutation-single-celled-archaea.html#jCp\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-evolution-sans-mutation-si...a.html#jCp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love it when the reductionists are wrong\u2026again. I can not help myself. bigsmile University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in their single-celled counterparts, too. Species most often evolve through DNA mutations inherited by successive generations. A few decades ago, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85434","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\/85434","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}