{"id":2369,"date":"2006-02-09T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2006-02-09T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:35:00","slug":"hairy-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/02\/09\/21\/35\/hairy-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairy Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally discovered why it is that as I grow older I have increasingly hairy ears: the  locus for the hair earlobe gene is carried only on the Y portion of the 23rd chromosome. Actually, it&#8217;s a bit more complicated than that and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/dispomim.cgi?id=425500\">not strictly Y-linked<\/a>, but results from an interaction between homologous and non-homologous portions of the 23rd chromosome. Either way, it boils down to this: as I grow older, I can expect to find more and more hair there. I am still wondering what the evolutionary pressure is for hairy ears in men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally discovered why it is that as I grow older I have increasingly hairy ears: the locus for the hair earlobe gene is carried only on the Y portion of the 23rd chromosome.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}