{"id":32111,"date":"2021-02-05T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32111"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:42:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/05\/word-of-the-day-647\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carcinisation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Carcinisation<\/b>\u00a0(or\u00a0<b>carcinization<\/b>) is an example of\u00a0<a title=\"Convergent evolution\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convergent_evolution\">convergent evolution<\/a>\u00a0in which a\u00a0<a title=\"Crustacean\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crustacean\">crustacean<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Evolution\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution\">evolves<\/a>\u00a0into a\u00a0<a title=\"Crab\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crab\">crab<\/a>-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into\u00a0<a title=\"Evolutionary biology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolutionary_biology\">evolutionary biology<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"Lancelot Alexander Borradaile\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lancelot_Alexander_Borradaile\">L. A. Borradaile<\/a>, who described it as &#8220;one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab&#8221;.\u00a0Most carcinised crustaceans belong to the order\u00a0<a title=\"Anomura\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anomura\">Anomura<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carcinisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2418\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in <em><strong>xkcd<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/metacarcinization.png?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carcinisation: Carcinisation\u00a0(or\u00a0carcinization) is an example of\u00a0convergent evolution\u00a0in which a\u00a0crustacean\u00a0evolves\u00a0into a\u00a0crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into\u00a0evolutionary biology\u00a0by\u00a0L. A. Borradaile, who described it as &#8220;one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab&#8221;.\u00a0Most carcinised crustaceans belong to the order\u00a0Anomura. [Wikipedia] Noted here in xkcd:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-32111","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\/32111","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=32111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32112,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions\/32112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}