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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Biology@mander.xyz · 3 days ago

Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits

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Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Biology@mander.xyz · 3 days ago
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  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    “Reverse evolution” is simply normal evolution: mutation, selection, inheritance, in some order. It doesn’t “march” in one or another direction, that’s simply how we interpret it.

    And, if I’m parsing the paper right, the mutation itself wasn’t even reverted. It’s just that additional mutations made the relevant enzyme behave more like it used to. Like twisting a wire twice, you know?

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      Basically when the pressure to grow bigger fruits and yields disappears, all offspring have equal changes to breed.

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    However, for now, this is just a theory

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    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      A game theory.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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      Maddening

  • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So, these non-GMO fruits are not unlike the GOP?

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