{"id":502537,"date":"2018-07-27T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8540bb05b2ab51ecff295fd9f2973495"},"modified":"2018-07-27T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T13:30:01","slug":"how-did-genetic-parasites-overcome-natural-selection-for-billions-of-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=502537","title":{"rendered":"How did genetic parasites overcome natural selection for billions of years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the human genome is composed of genetic parasites\u2014transposons, plasmids, viruses, and other genetic elements that have one thing in common: they don&#8217;t make any beneficial contributions to their hosts, and can sometimes have harmful effects. Genetic parasites\u2014sometimes called &#8220;selfish genes&#8221;\u2014originated early in the history of life and today are present in nearly all living organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the human genome is composed of genetic parasites&mdash;transposons, plasmids, viruses, and other genetic elements that have one thing in common: they don&#8217;t make any beneficial contributions to their hosts, and can sometimes have harmful effects. Genetic parasites&mdash;sometimes called &#8220;selfish genes&#8221;&mdash;originated early in the history of life and today are present in nearly all living organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502538,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502537\/revisions\/502538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}