{"id":29872,"date":"2010-10-17T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T03:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T18:16:09","slug":"leigh-van-valen-1935-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/17\/leigh-van-valen-1935-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Van Valen, 1935-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnhawks.net\/node\/14930\">John Hawks<\/a> is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leigh_Van_Valen\">Leigh Van Valen<\/a> passed away this weekend. I had the pleasure and honor of Leigh Van Valen being an occasional reader of my musings. He would leave comments as &#8220;leigh.&#8221; Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2008\/02\/the-structure-of-evolutionary-theory-blogging-chapter-5\/#comment-8778\">one<\/a> which he left in February 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Goldschmidt did a great deal more than hopeless monsters. I was with Dobzhansky when he heard of Goldschmidt\u2019s death. I\u2019ve preserved his comment: \u201cA great geneticist has just died.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Van Valen was the originator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Queen's_Hypothesis\">Red Queen&#8217;s Hypothesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hawks is reporting that Leigh Van Valen passed away this weekend. I had the pleasure and honor of Leigh Van Valen being an occasional reader of my musings. He would leave comments as &#8220;leigh.&#8221; Here&#8217;s one which he left in February 2008:<br \/>\nGoldschmidt did a great deal more than hopeless monsters. I was with Dobzhansky [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-leigh-van-valen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30330,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29872\/revisions\/30330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}