{"id":686,"date":"2006-10-17T05:17:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T11:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=686"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T17:35:30","slug":"apple-tree-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/apple-tree-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, tree, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn10307-you-were-born-with-your-future-facial-expressions.html\">From the<em> New Scientist<\/em><\/a>: researchers studied the facial expressions of 21 people who were born blind, and found they were &#8220;significantly more likely to make angry, sad and pensive facial expressions that resembled those of their relatives than of strangers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess it can be attributed to similarities in the musculature of the face. OTOH for three of the facial expressions studied, &#8220;joy, surprise and disgust&#8221; &#8220;the resemblance to relatives and strangers was not significantly different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the researchers speculates that this &#8220;might be because these emotions are for some reason more universally similar and not as prone to genetic variations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New Scientist: researchers studied the facial expressions of 21 people who were born blind, and found they were &#8220;significantly more likely to make angry, sad and pensive facial expressions that resembled those of their relatives than of strangers.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/apple-tree-etc\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}