{"id":73971,"date":"2017-11-28T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/galapagos-study-finds-new-species-can-emerge-in-just-two-generations"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:01:05","slug":"galapagos-study-finds-new-species-can-emerge-in-just-two-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/galapagos-study-finds-new-species-can-emerge-in-just-two-generations","title":{"rendered":"Gal\u00e1pagos study finds new species can emerge in just two generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/galapagos-study-finds-new-species-can-emerge-in-just-two-generations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 28 (UPI) \u2014 New research proves interbreeding among species can produce new species in as little as two generations.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers discovered their proof, a new bird species \u2014 the product of a love affair between a foreigner and local \u2014 on the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have been studying Darwin\u2019s finches on the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands off the west coast of South America. The remote islands offer an ideal setting in which to study evolution and adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/11\/28\/Galpagos-study-finds-new-species-can-emerge-in-just-two-generations\/4851511875249\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/11\/28\/Galpagos-study-f...511875249\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 28 (UPI) \u2014 New research proves interbreeding among species can produce new species in as little as two generations. Researchers discovered their proof, a new bird species \u2014 the product of a love affair between a foreigner and local \u2014 on the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands. For decades, scientists have been studying Darwin\u2019s finches on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74085,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73971\/revisions\/74085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}