{"id":14792,"date":"2018-03-16T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14792"},"modified":"2018-03-16T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T01:49:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/16\/word-of-the-day-337\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Adaptive introgression<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The researchers] went looking for instances of adaptive introgression \u2014 a phenomenon in which a newly introduced piece of genetic material is so beneficial that it quickly radiates out into the entire population. [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/10\/19\/your-neanderthal-dna-might-actually-be-doing-you-some-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Your Neanderthal DNA might actually be doing you some good<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Sarah Kaplan, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading that last phrase, I was struck by the notion that &#8220;population&#8221; must implicitly have the modifier &#8220;future&#8221; on it, since genes, for creatures such as us, is not a directly transferring piece of genetic material.<\/p>\n<p>But it is for bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quickly,&#8221; for us, would imply at least a few generations, which would be inversely related to the level of promiscuity practiced by the population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaptive introgression: [The researchers] went looking for instances of adaptive introgression \u2014 a phenomenon in which a newly introduced piece of genetic material is so beneficial that it quickly radiates out into the entire population. [&#8220;Your Neanderthal DNA might actually be doing you some good,&#8221; Sarah Kaplan, WaPo] Reading that \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/16\/word-of-the-day-337\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}