{"id":8455,"date":"2023-10-18T06:53:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:53:30","slug":"scientists-propose-sweeping-new-law-of-nature-expanding-on-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/scientists-propose-sweeping-new-law-of-nature-expanding-on-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>law of increasing functional information holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist &#8211; such as cellular mutation &#8211; that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to <strong>selection for useful functions<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/science\/scientists-propose-sweeping-new-law-nature-expanding-evolution-2023-10-16\/\">Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>law of increasing functional information holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8456,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}