{"id":1304,"date":"2009-02-12T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2009-02-12T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:01:31","slug":"happy-darwin-day-its-the-big-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/02\/12\/happy-darwin-day-its-the-big-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Darwin Day! It’s the big 200!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy 200th Birthday, Charlie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab.<\/p>\n

Grab your favorite sister species and take her for a twirl \u2013 it’s Darwin’s 200th birthday today, and the science commuity is celebrating in style!\u00a0 Many people begin their journey into the natural sciences by simply\u00a0 marveling in awe at the colorful and diverse bounty of life on our planet \u2013 from the flashy fish of a teaming coral reef to the jewel-toned butterflies of the rainforest.\u00a0\u00a0 A multitude of species exist in all shapes and sizes, each the product of successful genes passed on over millennia.<\/p>\n

Today we raise our beakers to toast the man who took the time to understand what could bring about such diversity, without even knowing that genes existed.\u00a0 We celebrate the man who grounded our understanding of evolution by describing it’s underlying mechanism of natural selection, as published in his famous book The Origin of Species<\/em>, which also marks it’s 150th anniversary this year. \u00a0\u00a0 Surely that’s a reason for a party if there ever was one, and celebrations are happening around the world (find one near you!<\/a>).\u00a0 There’s even one in our backyard at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History<\/a>, where several Moss Landing scientists and MLML graphic artist Lynn McMasters have helped create a beautiful exhibit in honor of Darwin.<\/p>\n

You can celebrate by reading some\u00a0 interesting Darwin tidbits<\/a> here<\/a>, and just for fun try checking out your local plant and animal life with the keen eye that Darwin must have had.\u00a0 What are the details he might have picked up on?\u00a0 Maybe you’ll develop some truly “original” thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab. Grab your favorite sister species and take her for a twirl \u2013 it’s Darwin’s 200th birthday today, and the science commuity is celebrating in style!\u00a0 Many people begin their journey into the natural sciences by simply\u00a0 marveling in awe at the colorful and diverse bounty of life on our planet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}