{"id":38071,"date":"2011-02-25T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:02:24","slug":"friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-february-25th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/25\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-february-25th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fluff \u2013 February 25th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/09\/FF3.png\" alt=\"FF3\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1) First, a <strong>post from the past<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2006\/10\/black-white-twins-again\/\/\">\u201cBlack\u201d &amp; white twins again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> 2) <strong>Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: &#8220;buff chimpanzee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/02\/the-evolution-of-man-is-no-cartoon\/#comment-58198\">The evolution of man is no cartoon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>I think the confounding notion here is that changes to the DNA which don\u2019t affect a protein\u2019s amino acid sequence are selectively neutral. It\u2019s endemic, and yet there are several very obvious counterexamples.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>True. But as a first approximation, it is still a reasonable practice. For every 1000 amino acid changes one will find A LOT more functional effects than for every 1000 silent mutations. Keep in mind that your argument can be taken in reverse, too: there are some obvious examples where amino acid change does not result in a detectable change of properties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>4) And finally, your weekly <strong>fluff fix<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/grey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/grey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) First, a post from the past: \u201cBlack\u201d &amp; white twins again.<\/p>\n<p> 2) Weird search query of the week: &#8220;buff chimpanzee.&#8221;<br \/>\n3) Comment of the week, in response to The evolution of man is no cartoon:<br \/>\nI think the confounding notion here is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-friday-fluff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38120,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071\/revisions\/38120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}