{"id":13398,"date":"2013-02-15T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:19:06","slug":"east-asian-physical-traits-linked-to-35000-year-old-mutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/15\/east-asian-physical-traits-linked-to-35000-year-old-mutation\/","title":{"rendered":"East Asian Physical Traits Linked to 35,000-Year-Old Mutation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The New York Times Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/15\/science\/studying-recent-human-evolution-at-the-genetic-level.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>East Asian Physical Traits Linked to 35,000-Year-Old Mutation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, researchers have identified a mutation in a critical human gene as the source of several distinctive traits that make East Asians different from other races.<\/p>\n<p>The traits \u2014 thicker hair shafts, more sweat glands, characteristically identified teeth and smaller breasts \u2014 are the result of a gene mutation that occurred about 35,000 years ago, the researchers have concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was wondering how evolution deniers could handle this story.\u00a0 The comments on <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em> version of this story headlined <a title=\"The Los Angeles Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/la-sci-human-evolution-genes-20130215,0,7710369.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tiny mutation may have shaped modern humans, scientists say<\/strong><\/a> gives the answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Scott Traficante at 4:10 AM February 15, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Junk science &#8211;and paid for on the backs of working Anericans.\u00a0 It always amusues me that people make wole careers and raise families doing nothing but &#8220;researching: junk science.\u00a0 In other words, find a conclusion, then make a hypothisis fit it.<\/p>\n<p>Not the scientific method we were taight in school.<\/p>\n<p>rphael at 7:41 PM February 14, 2013<\/p>\n<p>So we are to believe that Chinese men prefare small breasts and to accomplish this, they got more sweat glands&#8230;.\u00a0 Monkey science?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the story East Asian Physical Traits Linked to 35,000-Year-Old Mutation. Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, researchers have identified a mutation in a critical human gene as the source of several distinctive traits that make East Asians different from other races. The traits \u2014 thicker hair shafts, more sweat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}