However, for now, this is just a theory 😠
Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits
Submitted 2 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to [deleted]
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DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
A game theory.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Maddening
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
So, these non-GMO fruits are not unlike the GOP?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
“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?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Basically when the pressure to grow bigger fruits and yields disappears, all offspring have equal changes to breed.