{"id":100198,"date":"2017-06-02T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=188377"},"modified":"2017-06-02T19:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T03:32:50","slug":"what-determines-the-rate-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/02\/what-determines-the-rate-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"What determines the rate of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0199267944\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-188378\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/download-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New research contradicts contemporary theories and shows that promiscuity slows down evolution <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aP9VErn2uo\">https:\/\/t.co\/aP9VErn2uo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wiley Evolution (@Darwin2009) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Darwin2009\/status\/869624521178959873\">May 30, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe tweet above from Wiley relates to a paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/evo.13212\/full?hootPostID=c7089ec7e1c3ca937469d0a5b55e0c09\">Polygamy slows down population divergence in shorebirds<\/a>. It&#8217;s a cool paper. I tweeted it. <b>But does it relate to the &#8220;rate of evolution&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B008724J1E\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-188382\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/download-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s no definitive answer to this question. Different people will have different answers, as it was evident on Twitter. For me my surprise was due to my definition for what evolution is:<strong> change is allele frequencies over time<\/strong>. This is far more fundamental than speciation. But then I don&#8217;t think much about speciation.<\/p>\n<p>Some people brought up divergence. But divergence for me is not necessary, a population could remain unitary but exhibit large allele frequency changes. Then again, if you study phylogenetics on a macroevolutionary scale, as most people who study phylogenetics do, then you would focus on divergence.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F02%2Fwhat-determines-the-rate-of-evolution%2F&amp;linkname=What%20determines%20the%20rate%20of%20evolution\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F02%2Fwhat-determines-the-rate-of-evolution%2F&amp;linkname=What%20determines%20the%20rate%20of%20evolution\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F02%2Fwhat-determines-the-rate-of-evolution%2F&amp;linkname=What%20determines%20the%20rate%20of%20evolution\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F02%2Fwhat-determines-the-rate-of-evolution%2F&amp;title=What%20determines%20the%20rate%20of%20evolution\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/06\/02\/what-determines-the-rate-of-evolution\/\" data-a2a-title=\"What determines the rate of evolution\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research contradicts contemporary theories and shows that promiscuity slows down evolution https:\/\/t.co\/aP9VErn2uo &mdash; Wiley Evolution (@Darwin2009) May 30, 2017 The tweet above from Wiley relates to a paper, Polygamy slows down population divergence in shorebirds. It&rsquo;s a cool paper. I tweeted it. But does it relate to the &ldquo;rate of evolution&rdquo;? There&rsquo;s no definitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100199,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198\/revisions\/100199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}