{"id":28090,"date":"2012-06-03T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/evolution-made-simple.html"},"modified":"2012-06-03T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:07:42","slug":"evolution-made-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/evolution-made-simple.html","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Made Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I hear someone ask, &quot;Why, if we evolved from monkeys, are there still monkeys around?&quot; I feel like hitting the wall with my head. \u00a0This infographic explains why that&#39;s the wrong question far more patiently than I do (and might be boiled down as &quot;Why, if all of my many cousins and I are descended from Great-Great-Grandma, are they still alive?&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109830558164732334015\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"109830558164732334015\">Steven Sudit<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115645819756954392135'>Shawna Bergen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simple Evolution Guide<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='http:\/\/i.minus.com\/ifGJKcXOso8h4.png'><img src='http:\/\/i.minus.com\/ifGJKcXOso8h4.png' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GvRx7xJhq8P' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I hear someone ask, &quot;Why, if we evolved from monkeys, are there still monkeys around?&quot; I feel like hitting the wall with my head. \u00a0This infographic explains why that&#39;s the wrong question far more patiently than I do (and might be boiled down as &quot;Why, if all of my many cousins and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/evolution-made-simple.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolution Made Simple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/natural_pr0n.html","url_meta":{"origin":28090,"position":0},"title":"Natural Pr0n","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Jan-05 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Evidently, male monkeys will \"pay\" (give up juice rewards) to see pictures of female monkey's bottoms. 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