{"id":24998,"date":"2011-04-02T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/02\/the-hopeful-monster-theory-ret\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:07:02","slug":"the-hopeful-monster-theory-ret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/the-hopeful-monster-theory-ret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hopeful Monster Theory Returns Triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most evolutionary biologist have fully rejected the &#8220;hopeful monster theory&#8221; but it turns out they were wrong to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Most mutations are deleterious, and are quickly weeded out of a population but in some cases not before they briefly cause hideous results that make everyone turn away in horror and disgust.  But sometimes a hideous mutation can produce something new and amazing, something novel and wonderful, something never before seen and but which we could never imagine the world doing without.  Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Original Mutation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CD2LRROpph0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>F1 Generation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zzfQwXEqYaI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>F2 Generation: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qm13rAX5pfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Case closed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-af727314bb91def34a44e4261c14ccca-PleaseClickOnThisStuff.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-af727314bb91def34a44e4261c14ccca-PleaseClickOnThisStuff.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most evolutionary biologist have fully rejected the &#8220;hopeful monster theory&#8221; but it turns out they were wrong to do so. Most mutations are deleterious, and are quickly weeded out of a population but in some cases not before they briefly cause hideous results that make everyone turn away in horror and disgust. But sometimes a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/the-hopeful-monster-theory-ret\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hopeful Monster Theory Returns Triumphant<\/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":[],"tags":[151],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6vc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998"}],"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=24998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}