{"id":1190,"date":"2008-01-20T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/20\/evolution-cuisine-and-romance\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:06:40","slug":"evolution-cuisine-and-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/evolution-cuisine-and-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution, Cuisine and Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellmuseum.org\/calendar.html\"> Bell Museum<\/a>, in Minneapolis, will sponsor a Valentine&#8217;s Day <em>Cafe Scientifique<\/em> that will be especially close to my heart &#8230;<!--more-->&#8230; mainly because it is <em>me<\/em> doing it.<strong>Evolution, Cuisine and Romance<\/strong><em>Tuesday, February 19, 7 p.m.<\/em><em>Bryant-Lake Bowl, Uptown<\/em>Were the opposable thumb, an upright stance and a large brain the most important evolutionary events in human history? According to Anthropologist Greg Laden, these and other traits are only the byproducts of the truly important evolutionary transitions for our species: the rise of romance and the evolution of cuisine. Join Laden for a discussion about the co-evolution of diet, sexual strategies, and society during the last five million years.Mark your calendars!  But don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll announce it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bell Museum, in Minneapolis, will sponsor a Valentine&#8217;s Day Cafe Scientifique that will be especially close to my heart &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[151,162],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"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=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}