{"id":4248,"date":"2010-12-04T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2010-12-11T13:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T12:06:42","slug":"the-case-for-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4248","title":{"rendered":"The case for evolution (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve read two books on evolution:<\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Evolution: A Very Short Introduction&#8221; by Brian &amp; Deborah Charlesworth [for my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/science.html#Evolution\">click here<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth&#8221; by Richard Dawkins [for my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/science.html#GSOE\">click here<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p>What struck me reading these texts is that evolution is a complicated subject and there are very few brief, accurate and intelligible pieces of writing on the origins of humankind. So I&#8217;ve spent the last few days drafting an essay which attempts to address that gap. You can read my short explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/evolution.html#NBN\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One test of the extent to which this essay meets a need will be how long it takes for a Google search on the words &#8220;case for evolution&#8221;\u00a0 to bring my work onto the first page of results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve read two books on evolution: &#8220;Evolution: A Very Short Introduction&#8221; by Brian &amp; Deborah Charlesworth [for my review click here] &#8220;The Greatest Show On Earth&#8221; by Richard Dawkins [for my review click here] What struck me reading these texts is that evolution is a complicated subject and there are [&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-4248","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\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}