{"id":310,"date":"2008-11-19T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-11-19T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:40:54","slug":"mitochondrial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/mitochondrial-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitochondrial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other week I was reading an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27458586\/\">a mummy found in the alps that has little\/no living relatives today<\/a>. That got me doing some wiki research and I thought my &#8220;stream of wiki&#8221; was sort of interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_DNA\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_DNA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_Eve\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_Eve<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Population_bottleneck\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Population_bottleneck<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toba_catastrophe_theory\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toba_catastrophe_theory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Garita_Caldera\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Garita_Caldera<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doomsday_event\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doomsday_event<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma_ray_burst\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma_ray_burst<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pole_shift_hypothesis\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pole_shift_hypothesis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_vacuum\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_vacuum<\/a> (this actually resonates with an idea i have about the next step of evolution being the creation of a new universe in a computer where the currently-understood laws of physics\/chemistry\/etc. are changed so humans have super powers)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_singularity\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_singularity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kardashev_scale\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kardashev_scale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other week I was reading an article about a mummy found in the alps that has little\/no living relatives today. That got me doing some wiki research and I thought my &#8220;stream of wiki&#8221; was sort of interesting&#8230; http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_DNA http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_Eve http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Population_bottleneck http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toba_catastrophe_theory http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Garita_Caldera http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doomsday_event http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma_ray_burst http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pole_shift_hypothesis http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_vacuum (this actually resonates with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/mitochondrial-dna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitochondrial DNA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[76,75],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}