{"id":1149,"date":"2009-12-21T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2009-12-21T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T19:37:39","slug":"what-darwin-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"What Darwin Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nova has a new two hour special which airs on PBS\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday December 29th. \u00c2\u00a0“What Darwin Never Knew”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0offers answers to riddles that Darwin couldn’t explain 150 years ago. Development of embryology and secrets at the genetic level have\u00c2\u00a0confirmed the brilliance of Darwin’s insights while revealing clues to life’s breathtaking diversity in ways the great naturalist could scarcely have imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nova has a new two hour special which airs on PBS\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday December 29th. \u00c2\u00a0“What Darwin Never Knew”\u00c2\u00a0offers answers to riddles that Darwin couldn’t explain 150 years ago. Development of embryology and secrets at the genetic level have\u00c2\u00a0confirmed the brilliance of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ix","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1151,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1151","url_meta":{"origin":1149,"position":0},"title":"Tonight “What Darwin Never Knew”","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"December 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a reminder that the Nova's\u00c2\u00a0two hour special\u00c2\u00a0airs on PBS\u00c2\u00a0tonight, December 29th. \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Darwin Never Knew\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Check your local PBS station\u00c2\u00a0listings here.\u00c2\u00a0for times and availability.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1165,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1165","url_meta":{"origin":1149,"position":1},"title":"A Personal Thought for Darwin Day","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"February 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to escape the glaring irony that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, in the same year, Feb 12th 1809. 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