{"id":480,"date":"2021-04-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=480"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:34:47","slug":"28-speciation-and-the-great-wall-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"28- Speciation and the Great Wall of China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 28- Speciation and the Great Wall of China\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/14Gol5iCZ62u9wDokIFJFu\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The Great Wall of China is one of the most imposing monuments humanity has ever created- after all, it&#8217;s not for nothing that the claim goes around that you can see it from space. However, it&#8217;s not just an effective barrier for humans. In fact, a 2003 study indicates that it&#8217;s causing speciation in the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Su, H., Qu., L.-J., He, K., Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Chen, Z. and Gu, H. (2003), The Great Wall of China: a physical barrier to gene flow? Heredity 90: 212- 219. 2) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2021), Great Wall of China (online) [Accessed 19\/02\/2021]. 3)Campbell, N. A., Urry, L. A., Cain, M. L., Wasserman, S. A., Minorsky, P. V. and Reece, J. B. (2018), Biology: a global approach, 11th edition (Global Edition), Harlow, Pearson Education Limited 4) Oltermann, P., <em>et al.<\/em>, The Guardian\/Observer (2010), The Ancient World (booklet series), Day 6: China. Associated with the British Museum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Wall of China is one of the most imposing monuments humanity has ever created- after all, it&#8217;s not for nothing that the claim goes around that you can see it from space. However, it&#8217;s not just an effective barrier for humans. In fact, a 2003 study indicates that it&#8217;s causing speciation in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;28- Speciation and the Great Wall of China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}