{"id":156842,"date":"2026-09-01T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156842"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:00:05","slug":"chinese-script-evolved-like-a-living-organism-driven-by-natural-selection-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156842","title":{"rendered":"Chinese script evolved like a living organism driven by natural selection: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostModern simplified Chinese characters form a tightly connected network from just 514 basic components that evolved through a process similar to natural selection, according to researchers who say their findings could change how Chinese writing is taught.<br \/>\n\u201cChinese characters evolve like living organisms,\u201d lecturer Xie Yonghui of Shanghai Normal University said on August 24.<br \/>\nThe research into the evolution of Chinese writing over thousands of years, led by Huang Wei, of Beijing Language and Culture&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3365849\/chinese-script-evolved-living-organism-driven-natural-selection-study?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostModern simplified Chinese characters form a tightly connected network from just 514 basic components that evolved through a process similar to natural selection, according&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}