{"id":267,"date":"2010-04-15T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/?p=267"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:00:27","slug":"267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/267\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heya. Yes, I&#8217;m submitting questions forty minutes before the start of class. So sue me.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d really like to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>How useful is it to take evolutionary biology and apply some of its principles to other fields? I know we \/can\/ (as our project and invited speakers have shown), but does it help us understand the fields better? We&#8217;ve seen how people study language and folklore and some of it seems very similar to the study of evolution, and I&#8217;m wondering how new these ways of thinking are, and whether they&#8217;ve consciously borrowed from biology or not (and vice versa, as I seem to recall someone talking about biology taking tree building tactics from linguistics). Also, I know many people don&#8217;t like the idea of using evolution to study non-bio fields, and I&#8217;d like to discuss whether these arguments have merit or not.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, it feels like to some degree that we have been learning about several disconnected topics, and I would just like to (attempt to!) tie them neatly together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heya. Yes, I&#8217;m submitting questions forty minutes before the start of class. So sue me. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d really like to discuss. How useful is it to take evolutionary biology and apply some of its principles to other fields? I know we \/can\/ (as our project and invited speakers have shown), but does it help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}