{"id":535876,"date":"2018-10-17T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e168411620851050ba3b2bff6ed4a3c8"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:00:02","slug":"a-curious-branch-of-plankton-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=535876","title":{"rendered":"A curious branch of plankton evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planktonic foraminifera (forams) &#8211; tiny, shelled organisms that float in the sea\u2014left behind one of the most complete fossil records of evolutionary history in deep sea deposits. Consequently, evolutionists have a relatively sturdy grasp on when and how new lineages arose and developed their own unique features. However, a study publishing October 17 in the journal iScience reveals that one foram lineage evolved much more rapidly than everyone predicted, and researchers are looking beyond Darwin&#8217;s original theories of gradual evolution to understand why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planktonic foraminifera (forams) &#8211; tiny, shelled organisms that float in the sea&mdash;left behind one of the most complete fossil records of evolutionary history in deep sea deposits. Consequently, evolutionists have a relatively sturdy grasp on when and how new lineages arose and developed their own unique features. However, a study publishing October 17 in the journal iScience reveals that one foram lineage evolved much more rapidly than everyone predicted, and researchers are looking beyond Darwin&#8217;s original theories of gradual evolution to understand why.<\/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-535876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535876","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=535876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535879,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535876\/revisions\/535879"}],"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=535876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}