{"id":2323,"date":"2009-02-23T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2009-02-23T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T06:00:40","slug":"darwin-diluted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/darwin-diluted\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Diluted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2324 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/young-darwin2.bmp\" alt=\"young-darwin2\" width=\"127\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How does one simplify the subject of evolution?\u00a0 One solution &#8212; read some children&#8217;s books on the subject.\u00a0 Well, at least that&#8217;s what I did.\u00a0 After quickly purveying Darwin&#8217;s original <a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm00352242&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>On the Origin of the Species<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, it was pretty obvious that I wouldn&#8217;t be finishing it anytime soon, so I did the next best thing.\u00a0 I checked out what we had in the juvenile section, and lo and behold, I could actually understand them!\u00a0 I also garnered some fascinating tidbits about this legendary scientist.\u00a0 For instance, did you know that Darwin . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>was a poor-to-mediocre student who would rather be out hunting than studying the classics?\u00a0 (Wouldn&#8217;t most kids?)<\/li>\n<li>dropped out of medical school as he couldn&#8217;t stand to watch surgery being performed on children without anesthetic? (That would do me in, too.)<\/li>\n<li>spent five years on a voyage around the world aboard the HMS Beagle?\u00a0 (Though plagued with terrible seasickness, he collected countless new specimens and fossils.)<\/li>\n<li>spent eight years just studying barnacles?<\/li>\n<li>was an ardent abolitionist?<\/li>\n<li>preferred the term &#8220;transmutation through natural selection&#8221; over &#8220;evolution&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>suffered from stage fright so severe he couldn&#8217;t publicly defend his ideas?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more about Darwin, check out these titles:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm52381667&amp;user_id=davmainweb  \" target=\"_blank\">Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kristan Lawson<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm83609716&amp;user_id=davmainweb  \" target=\"_blank\">Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (a graphic novel!) by Heather Adamson<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm50960680&amp;user_id=davmainweb  \" target=\"_blank\">The Tree of Life: a Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Peter Sis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one simplify the subject of evolution?\u00a0 One solution &#8212; read some children&#8217;s books on the subject.\u00a0 Well, at least that&#8217;s what I did.\u00a0 After quickly purveying Darwin&#8217;s original On the Origin of the Species, it was pretty obvious that I wouldn&#8217;t be finishing it anytime soon, so I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/darwin-diluted\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[423,462,464,463],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-charles-darwin","tag-evolution","tag-naturalist","tag-scientist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}