{"id":1405,"date":"2024-08-31T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:35:46","slug":"the-march-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/the-march-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The march of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem237.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem237.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem237-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem237-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The grand evolutionary procession:<br>\u00a0 striding elephants,<br>\u00a0 lumbering rhinoceri,<br>\u00a0 stalking lions,<br>\u00a0 gliding giraffes\u2026<br>We walk tall next to them, leading our children, hand in hand.<br><br>Most of the ones on display are better adapted than us,<br>\u00a0 a lot are bigger,<br>\u00a0 a lot are stronger,<br>\u00a0 a lot are faster,<br>\u00a0 a lot are more vicious,<br>but none are as dangerous.<br><br>What is it that separates us from the rest?<br>\u00a0 Some of them use tools<br>\u00a0 some of them have complex language,<br>\u00a0 some of them sacrifice themselves for others<br>\u00a0 some of them murder the members of their own tribe\u2026<br>Each specific characteristic is shared.<br><br>But in no other species do all these traits combine<br>to form our unique capacity<br>\u00a0 for self-serving<br>\u00a0 self-indulgent<br>\u00a0 self-destroying<br>\u00a0 self-delusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand evolutionary procession:\u00a0 striding elephants,\u00a0 lumbering rhinoceri,\u00a0 stalking lions,\u00a0 gliding giraffes\u2026We walk tall next to them, leading our children, hand in hand. Most of the ones on display are better adapted than us,\u00a0 a lot are bigger,\u00a0 a lot are stronger,\u00a0 a lot are faster,\u00a0 a lot are more vicious,but none are as dangerous. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[337,16,23,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}