{"id":323,"date":"2009-01-04T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T02:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/01\/fifteen_evolutionary_gems\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T02:19:24","slug":"fifteen-evolutionary-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/01\/fifteen-evolutionary-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"fifteen evolutionary gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/newspdf\/evolutiongems.pdf\">Here&#8217;s a great set of short articles<\/a> about evolution. Each one&#8217;s only a page long, and talks about a piece of research that (as the authors say) demonstrate the &#8216;breadth, depth, and power of evolutionary thinking&#8217; (Gee, Howlett &amp; Campbell, 2009). My current favourite is the one about the origins of the vertebrate skeleton, but they&#8217;re all good. Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/01\/evolutionary_gems.php\">PZ<\/a> for the heads-up! As he says &#8211; teachers, put this one in your classrooms.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great set of short articles about evolution. Each one&#8217;s only a page long, and talks about a piece of research that (as the authors say) demonstrate the &#8216;breadth, depth, and power of evolutionary thinking&#8217; (Gee, Howlett &amp; Campbell, 2009). My current favourite is the one about the origins of the vertebrate skeleton, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,2],"tags":[12,14,4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>fifteen evolutionary gems : BioBlog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/01\/fifteen-evolutionary-gems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"fifteen evolutionary gems : BioBlog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a great set of short articles about evolution. 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