{"id":603,"date":"2011-02-03T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:48:36","slug":"analects-of-the-core-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/03\/analects-of-the-core-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Lane on evolution of photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The word &#8216;fact&#8217; is always likely to make biologists tremble in their boots, as there are so many exceptions to every rule; but one such &#8216;fact&#8217; is virtually certain about oxygenic photosynthesis &#8211; it only evolved once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Nick Lane, in his discussion of the evolution of photosynthesis, page 73, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Ascending-Great-Inventions-Evolution\/dp\/0393338665\"><em>Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution<\/em><\/a>, a book now studied in <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc106\">CC106: Biodiversity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8216;fact&#8217; is always likely to make biologists tremble in their boots, as there are so many exceptions to every rule; but one such &#8216;fact&#8217; is virtually certain about oxygenic photosynthesis &#8211; it only evolved once. &#8212; Nick Lane, in his discussion of the evolution of photosynthesis, page 73, in Life Ascending: The Ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,4753,3890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}