{"id":25048,"date":"2011-04-21T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/21\/bird-song-and-parallel-evoluti\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:13:59","slug":"bird-song-and-parallel-evoluti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/bird-song-and-parallel-evoluti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;They charm the females by instrumental music of the most varied kinds&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And thus, Charles Darwin adapted the phrase &#8220;Instrumental Music,&#8221; previously used to mean humans with instruments making music, to name one of the most important &#8220;secondary sexual characters &#8230; diversified and conspicuous in birds&#8221; which, added to &#8220;all sorts of combs, wattles, protuberances, horns, air-distended sacs, topknots, naked shafts, plumes and lengthened feathers gracefully springing from all parts of the body&#8221; mediate avian sexual selection..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/bird-song-parallel-evolution.htm\"><br \/>\nRead my first post at 10,000 Birds &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For reviews of bird guides and other bird related books,<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/books-birds\/\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Nature Blogging on this site <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/nature_blogging\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes from Up North are <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/notes_from_the_north_country\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They charm the females by instrumental music of the most varied kinds&#8221; And thus, Charles Darwin adapted the phrase &#8220;Instrumental Music,&#8221; previously used to mean humans with instruments making music, to name one of the most important &#8220;secondary sexual characters &#8230; diversified and conspicuous in birds&#8221; which, added to &#8220;all sorts of combs, wattles, protuberances, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/bird-song-and-parallel-evoluti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6w0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048"}],"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=25048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}