{"id":546638,"date":"2018-11-14T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3c500eb7ae44c4a326bd32f3e8174f36"},"modified":"2018-11-14T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:50:01","slug":"human-evolution-is-still-happening-possibly-faster-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=546638","title":{"rendered":"Human evolution is still happening \u2013 possibly faster than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern medicine&#8217;s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, making them more likely to pass on their genes. But if we look at the rate of our DNA&#8217;s evolution, we can see that human evolution hasn&#8217;t stopped \u2013 it may even be happening faster than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern medicine&#8217;s ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, making them more likely to pass on their genes. But if we look at the rate of our DNA&#8217;s evolution, we can see that human evolution hasn&#8217;t stopped &ndash; it may even be happening faster than before.<\/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-546638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546638","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=546638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546639,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546638\/revisions\/546639"}],"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=546638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}