{"id":97236,"date":"2019-10-09T05:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/how-science-has-shifted-our-sense-of-identity"},"modified":"2019-10-09T05:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:02:29","slug":"how-science-has-shifted-our-sense-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/how-science-has-shifted-our-sense-of-identity","title":{"rendered":"How science has shifted our sense of identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-science-has-shifted-our-sense-of-identity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the iconic frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley\u2019s <i>Evidence as to Man\u2019s Place in <i>Nature<\/i><\/i> (1863), primate skeletons march across the page and, presumably, into the future: \u201cGibbon, Orang, Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Man.\u201d Fresh evidence from anatomy and palaeontology had made humans\u2019 place on the scala naturae scientifically irrefutable. We were unequivocally with the animals \u2014 albeit at the head of the line.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Biological advances have repeatedly changed who we think we are, writes Nathaniel Comfort, in the third essay of a series marking <i>Nature<\/i>\u2019s anniversary on how the past 150 years have shaped science today. Biological advances have repeatedly changed who we think we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the iconic frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley\u2019s Evidence as to Man\u2019s Place in Nature (1863), primate skeletons march across the page and, presumably, into the future: \u201cGibbon, Orang, Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Man.\u201d Fresh evidence from anatomy and palaeontology had made humans\u2019 place on the scala naturae scientifically irrefutable. We were unequivocally with the animals \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}