{"id":26329,"date":"2009-04-14T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/14\/consider-the-lowly-bird\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T13:13:29","slug":"consider-the-lowly-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/consider-the-lowly-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Lowly Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If we step outside of our chauvinistic inclination to look at evolution as a process with humans as the teleological result of its process, the unfolding story of life&#8217;s continual divergence makes even more sense. As Klink illustrates, we are but a small twig on a minor branch of the Tree of Life and not necessarily its crown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/04\/consider-the-lowly-bird\/\">Continued here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we step outside of our chauvinistic inclination to look at evolution as a process with humans as the teleological result of its process, the unfolding story of life&#8217;s continual divergence makes even more sense. As Klink illustrates, we are but a small twig on a minor branch of the Tree of Life and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/consider-the-lowly-bird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consider the Lowly Bird<\/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\/p5fhV1-6QF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26329"}],"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=26329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}