{"id":10018,"date":"2011-07-29T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/07\/29\/darwinian-thinking-from-the-bi\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T04:23:07","slug":"darwinian-thinking-from-the-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/darwinian-thinking-from-the-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwinian Thinking From The Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Louis Agassiz, the most famous scientist of his time, eclipsing Darwin in his stature and influence (up to a point) addressed this diversity across the landscape in one way. Darwin addressed it in another way. Today, most people don&#8217;t even know what Agassiz said, even though it is a perfectly rational model if you are a creationist, and something like half of all Americans are. But, his ideas would be considered absurd even by modern Young Earth Creationists (YECs). Darwin&#8217;s view, in contrast, is not absurd, but it is complicated&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdingblogs.com\/2011\/gregladen\/darwinian-thinking-bird\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Louis Agassiz, the most famous scientist of his time, eclipsing Darwin in his stature and influence (up to a point) addressed this diversity across the landscape in one way. Darwin addressed it in another way. Today, most people don&#8217;t even know what Agassiz said, even though it is a perfectly rational model if you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/darwinian-thinking-from-the-bi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darwinian Thinking From The Birds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5053,5022],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2BA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28319,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions\/28319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}