{"id":241561,"date":"2015-01-03T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/culture-war-in-the-deep-blue-sea-sciences-contentious-quest-to-understand-whales-and-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:43:01","slug":"culture-war-in-the-deep-blue-sea-sciences-contentious-quest-to-understand-whales-and-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/behavioral-science\/culture-war-in-the-deep-blue-sea-sciences-contentious-quest-to-understand-whales-and-dolphins.php","title":{"rendered":"Culture war in the deep blue sea: Sciences contentious quest to understand whales and dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The idea that culture is important for nonhumans, including whales, has a history of controversy. In the 1930s40s, biology was given a strong theoretical basis in the form of evolution through natural selectionnatural selection as first suggested by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and then formalized with genes as the units of selection in the modern synthesis.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/behavioral-science\/culture-war-in-the-deep-blue-sea-sciences-contentious-quest-to-understand-whales-and-dolphins.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[577410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavioral-science"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241561"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}