{"id":24806,"date":"2011-02-18T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/18\/how-evolution-works-sometimes\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:02:05","slug":"how-evolution-works-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/18\/how-evolution-works-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"How evolution works, sometimes."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing &#8211; trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves &#8211; kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18998570\">*<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once an accidental feature shows up, subsequent tracers try to reproduce it like good little replicators.  Eventually you get a dancing chihuahua.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18998570\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18998570\">A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/clementvalla\">clement valla<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing &#8211; trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/18\/how-evolution-works-sometimes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How evolution works, sometimes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6s6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}