{"id":6811,"date":"2016-11-25T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2016-11-25T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:11:34","slug":"word-of-the-day-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/25\/word-of-the-day-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Neoteny<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The retention by adults of traits previously seen only in the young is a subject studied in the field of <a title=\"Developmental biology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developmental_biology\">developmental biology<\/a>, occurring in two ways. In <b>neoteny<\/b> (<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ long 'e' in 'seed'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0252\/ short 'o' in 'body'\">\u0252<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\/ or \/\u0259\/ 'e' in 'roses'\">\u1d7b<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/ 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ long 'e' in 'seed'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0252\/ short 'o' in 'body'\">\u0252<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/ 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> or <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ long 'e' in 'seed'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0252\/ short 'o' in 'body'\">\u0252<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259n\/ 'on' in 'button'\">\u0259n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/ 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> also called <b>juvenilization<\/b>),<sup id=\"cite_ref-Montagu_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny#cite_note-Montagu-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> the <a title=\"Physiology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physiology\">physiological<\/a> (or <a title=\"Somatic (biology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Somatic_%28biology%29\">somatic<\/a>) development of an organism (typically an animal) is slowed or delayed. Neoteny is found <a title=\"Neoteny in humans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny_in_humans\">in modern humans<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2016\/dec\/the-origins-of-dogs\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Discover<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neoteny: The retention by adults of traits previously seen only in the young is a subject studied in the field of developmental biology, occurring in two ways. In neoteny (\/ni\u02d0\u02c8\u0252t\u1d7bni\/ \/ni\u02d0\u02c8\u0252tni\/[1][2][3] or \/ni\u02d0\u02c8\u0252t\u0259ni\/,[4] also called juvenilization),[5] the physiological (or somatic) development of an organism (typically an animal) is slowed or \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/25\/word-of-the-day-45\/\"> 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-6811","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\/6811","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=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}