{"id":31453,"date":"2026-11-15T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/15\/scientists-just-challenged-a-50-year-old-theory-about-how-evolution-works\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:25:19","slug":"scientists-just-challenged-a-50-year-old-theory-about-how-evolution-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/15\/scientists-just-challenged-a-50-year-old-theory-about-how-evolution-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Challenged a 50-Year-Old Theory About How Evolution Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-just-challenged-a-50-year-old-theory-about-how-evolution-works\/\" title=\"Scientists Just Challenged a 50-Year-Old Theory About How Evolution Works\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Human-Evolution-Sunset-777x518.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Human Evolution Sunset\" \/><\/a>In bacteria and yeast, a gene\u2019s importance did not predict its mutation rate, challenging the idea that evolution gives vital DNA preferential treatment. Not all genes are equally important. Some are essential for survival, controlling basic functions such as copying DNA and keeping cells alive. Others can be lost with little or no effect. But [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bacteria and yeast, a gene\u2019s importance did not predict its mutation rate, challenging the idea that evolution gives vital DNA preferential treatment. Not all genes are equally important. Some are essential for survival, controlling basic functions such as copying DNA and keeping cells alive. Others can be lost with little or no effect. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/15\/scientists-just-challenged-a-50-year-old-theory-about-how-evolution-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Just Challenged a 50-Year-Old Theory About How Evolution Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}