{"id":20,"date":"2006-06-14T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-06-14T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T20:32:22","slug":"when-two-become-one-in-the-lab-we-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/when-two-become-one-in-the-lab-we-call-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When two become one in the lab, we call it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/5080298.stm\">love.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or evolution in practice. Researchers breed two butterfly species together to create a new, third species.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\">The study demonstrates that two animal species can evolve to form one, instead of the more common scenario where one species diverges to form two.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it also demonstrates the malleability of species.  Two bad one species wasn&#8217;t a pit bull, that would have been interesting. OK, they&#8217;re not that malleable. But I can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;love. Or evolution in practice. Researchers breed two butterfly species together to create a new, third species. The study demonstrates that two animal species can evolve to form one, instead of the more common scenario where one species diverges to form two. I think it also demonstrates the malleability of species. Two bad one species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}