{"id":2274,"date":"2009-12-15T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tangled-bank-read-the-excerpt-and-then-stuff-that-stocking-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T22:37:37","slug":"tangled-bank-read-the-excerpt-and-then-stuff-that-stocking-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/tangled-bank-read-the-excerpt-and-then-stuff-that-stocking-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Bank: Read the Excerpt And Then Stuff That Stocking! | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2130\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b8a9_beetle-excerpt.jpg\" alt=\"beetle excerpt\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">The National Center For Science Education (now at its new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/\">ncse.com <\/a>address) is offering <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/7JTshG\">a free pdf of a chapter<\/a> from my book, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangled-Bank-Introduction-Evolution\/dp\/0981519474\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255373866&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution<\/em><\/a>. The chapter, called &ldquo;Radiations and Extinctions,&rdquo; is about the two sides of biodiversity. First I look at how biodiversity rises over time (the ascent of the animal kingdom, for example, and the wild exuberance of insects). Then I look at how biodiversity falls, thanks to background extinctions and mass extinctions. And then I take a look forward and see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carlzimmer.com\/articles\/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1259902071&amp;archive=&amp;start_from=&amp;ucat=12&amp;\">ominous signs<\/a> for biodiversity&rsquo;s future, such as corroding oceans.<\/p><p>If you like what you read, you can find out more about <em>The Tangled Bank<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carlzimmer.com\/books\/tangledbank\/index.html\">here<\/a>. Or you can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangled-Bank-Introduction-Evolution\/dp\/0981519474\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255373866&amp;sr=8-1\">cut to the chase and get the whole book<\/a>&ndash;as a holiday gift for yourself, or for that special someone who keeps asking you how we can be descended from monkeys if there are still monkeys around.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0flJBTsB4YyN_yPskP0R7y1Z9W0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b8a9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0flJBTsB4YyN_yPskP0R7y1Z9W0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b8a9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b8a9_BEGtj-JCOx0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b8a9_piVbR9i-_pE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center For Science Education (now at its new ncse.com address) is offering a free pdf of a chapter from my book, The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. The chapter, called &ldquo;Radiations and Extinctions,&rdquo; is about the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/tangled-bank-read-the-excerpt-and-then-stuff-that-stocking-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}