{"id":27298,"date":"2009-10-12T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/12\/i-reject-the-darwinian-assumpt\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:32:53","slug":"i-reject-the-darwinian-assumpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/i-reject-the-darwinian-assumpt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I reject the Darwinian assumption that larvae and their adults evolved from a single common ancestor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What might have been a plausible idea in the 17th or 18th century is the starting point for a just published paper in PNAS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBefore you go read about it, I just want to say this:  Having a system of publication in which some crap gets published is the cost of having a system of publication in which important stuff that does not happen to tickle the fancy of the publiconormative old guard GOB networkians does not get rejected.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m some will insist that we can have our cake (only good stuff gets published) and eat it too (and not good stuff gets not published) but that simply isn&#8217;t true.  And, the fact that it isn&#8217;t true can be demonstrated by looking at Lynn Margulis.<\/p>\n<p>Who it turns out is behind this whole thing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sciencepunk\/2009\/10\/bizarre_paper_on_interspecies.php\"><br \/>\nFollow the trail by clicking here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What might have been a plausible idea in the 17th or 18th century is the starting point for a just published paper in PNAS.<\/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],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-76i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298"}],"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=27298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}