{"id":39768,"date":"2011-04-17T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2011-04-17T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T07:22:09","slug":"evolution-in-higher-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/evolution-in-higher-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution in higher dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/04\/800px-Ostrich_SA2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/04\/800px-Ostrich_SA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"800px-Ostrich_SA2\" width=\"591\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10958\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Ornithomimosaurian dinosaur &#038;  ostrich<\/i>, image credit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ABeishanlong_BW.jpg\">Nobu Tamura<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AOstrich_SA2.jpg\">James G. Howes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" \/><\/a><i><b>The Pith:<\/b> This post explores evolution at two different scales: the broad philosophical and the close in genetic. Philosophically, is evolution a highly contingent process which is not characterized by much replication of form and function? Or, is evolution at the end of the day aiming for a few set points which define the most optimal fitness positions possible? And how do both of these models relate to the interaction across genes, epistasis? In this post I review a paper which shows exactly how historical contingency could work through gene-gene interactions on the molecular genetic scale.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you will a portal to another universe which you have access to. By fiat let&#8217;s give you a &#8220;pod&#8221; which allows you to move freely throughout this universe, and also let&#8217;s assume that you can travel fast enough to go from planet to planet. What if you see that on all the planets there&#8217;s a sludgy living &#8220;goo&#8221; of some sort? To complexify the issue imagine that upon further inspection the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ornithomimosaurian dinosaur &#038;  ostrich, image credit Nobu Tamura &#038; James G. Howes<\/p>\n<p>The Pith: This post explores evolution at two different scales: the broad philosophical and the close in genetic. Philosophically, is evolution a highly conti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,1250,492,7,204,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contingency","category-convergence","category-epistasis","category-evolution","category-evolutionary-genetics","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768","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=39768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39875,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768\/revisions\/39875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}