{"id":228,"date":"2008-10-08T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/10\/has_human_evolution_stopped\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:09:59","slug":"has-human-evolution-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/10\/has-human-evolution-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"has human evolution stopped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I mentioned I was reading Steve Jones&#8217; book,&nbsp;<i>Coral<\/i>. He&#8217;s a good writer &amp; I&#8217;ve enjoyed&nbsp;<i>Coral<\/i>, just as I&#8217;ve enjoyed most of his other books (although&nbsp;<i>The single helix<\/i> didn&#8217;t quite work so well for me).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, yesterday a friend sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2008\/10\/07\/scievolution107.xml\">link<\/a> to a report about a talk Jones had given &#8211; &amp; it sounded really strange. Full of all sorts of assertions about how human evolution has stopped. I read it &amp; thought, hang on, this all sounds a bit odd. I was going to write something on it when I got a chance, but now I see that PZ Myers has already done <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/10\/very_peculiar.php#comments\">an excellent job over on Pharyngula<\/a> (aided &amp; abetted by his readers).<\/p>\n<p>So read the two articles &amp; weigh up their arguments &#8211; what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I mentioned I was reading Steve Jones&#8217; book,&nbsp;Coral. He&#8217;s a good writer &amp; I&#8217;ve enjoyed&nbsp;Coral, just as I&#8217;ve enjoyed most of his other books (although&nbsp;The single helix didn&#8217;t quite work so well for me). 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