{"id":471,"date":"2021-03-28T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=471"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:34:47","slug":"25-dollos-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"25- Dollo&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 25- Dollo&amp;apos;s Law\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/62PQu06kAIEo63f6sqfYQR\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Science has to change with the evidence if it is to be trusted. One example of this comes with Dollo&#8217;s Law, named after the French Belgian biologist Louis Dollo. His original theory was that evolution would never, under any circumstances, retrace its path. However, as we&#8217;re going to see on the podcast today, that isn&#8217;t always the case. With new evidence came the need for a revamp of Dollo&#8217;s Law&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Dollo&#8217;s Law of irreversibility (online) [Accessed 24\/01\/2021]. 2) Author unknown, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018), Dollo&#8217;s Law (online) [Accessed 24\/01\/2021]. 3) Zimmer, C., National Geographic (2003), Recoil from Dollo&#8217;s Law (online) [Accessed 24\/01\/2021]. 4) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018), Peppered moth (online) [Accessed 27\/01\/2021]. NOTE: I think I get a bit mixed up in my speech at one point with the gastropod example. What I should have said is that shells started out coiled, uncoiled itself and then recoiled on at least two occasions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science has to change with the evidence if it is to be trusted. One example of this comes with Dollo&#8217;s Law, named after the French Belgian biologist Louis Dollo. His original theory was that evolution would never, under any circumstances, retrace its path. However, as we&#8217;re going to see on the podcast today, that isn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;25- Dollo&#8217;s Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}