{"id":8118,"date":"2011-03-10T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2011-03-10T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:00:52","slug":"on-the-subject-of-spineless-pricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8118","title":{"rendered":"On the Subject of Spineless Pricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/03\/deletion-human-evolution\/\">Genetic Errors Nixed Penis Spines, Enlarged Our Brains<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two deletions, one near a male hormone-signaling gene and another near a neural development gene, were especially intriguing. Tweaking those genes in mice suggested possible roles for the loss: eliminating penile spines and boosting cerebral cortex growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. Genetic Errors Nixed Penis Spines, Enlarged Our Brains Two deletions, one near a male hormone-signaling gene and another near a neural development gene, were especially intriguing. Tweaking those genes in mice suggested possible roles for the loss: eliminating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}