{"id":13432,"date":"2014-01-14T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2014-01-14T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:01:50","slug":"still-more-confirmation-of-the-truth-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13432","title":{"rendered":"Still more confirmation of the truth of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was in 2004 that scientists discovered a fossil called<em> Tiktaalik<\/em>, a 375m-year-old freshwater creature\u00a0which was a link in the evolutionary chain from fish to amphibian, but at that time only the front part was available.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/jan\/13\/tiktaalik-fossil-fish-four-legged-land-animal\">news about the back part<\/a> which confirms the importance of <em>Tiktaalik\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0in demonstrating how evolution has worked.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned the\u00a0<em>Tiktaalik<\/em>\u00a0fossil in my web site essay on an explanation of evolution which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/evolution.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in 2004 that scientists discovered a fossil called Tiktaalik, a 375m-year-old freshwater creature\u00a0which was a link in the evolutionary chain from fish to amphibian, but at that time only the front part was available. This week, we have news about the back part which confirms the importance of Tiktaalik\u00a0\u00a0in demonstrating how evolution has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13438,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}