{"id":2042,"date":"2016-02-22T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2016-02-22T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:24:28","slug":"speciation-without-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/speciation-without-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Speciation without tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ernst \u00a0Mayer<\/strong>, considered \u00a0as one of the world\u2019s leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th Century once wrote<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2016\/02\/mayr-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2044\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2016\/02\/mayr-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mayr-2\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Anyone who writes about &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So if you are struggling with the concepts around the mechanisms \u00a0of \u00a0`speciation&#8217; \u00a0this entertaining short video clip might just be for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2043 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2016\/02\/Speciation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Speciation\" width=\"240\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speciation: Of Ligers &amp; Men &#8211; Crash Course Biology #15<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2oKlKmrbLoU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2oKlKmrbLoU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst \u00a0Mayer, considered \u00a0as one of the world\u2019s leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th Century once wrote Anyone who writes about &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/speciation-without-tears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}