{"id":85,"date":"2006-08-15T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T07:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/08\/15\/whats-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T11:00:52","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/08\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What&#8217;s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet. From <\/em><em>Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Geographical distribution of names may indicate spreading of gene variants &#8211; a fact that has been ignored so far in genetic research. If you are interested in European names, here are some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-leipzig.de\/%7Eonoma\/onomastik\/links.html\">links<\/a>. It is now even possible to draw <a href=\"http:\/\/christoph.stoepel.net\/geogen.aspx\">your name on a map<\/a> &#8211; on the fly. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n<p>Here is map of my name (yes, a couple of errors, but the locations are close to what I have found in our 70 year old family register).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/geogen_mapaspx.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image167\" height=\"92\" alt=\"geogen_mapaspx.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/geogen_mapaspx.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/geogen_mapaspx.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image167\" height=\"92\" alt=\"geogen_mapaspx.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/geogen_mapaspx.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet. From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2). Geographical distribution of names may indicate spreading of gene variants &#8211; a fact that has been ignored so far in genetic research. If you are interested in European names, here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/08\/whats-in-a-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s in a name?<\/span> <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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}