{"id":68790,"date":"2012-05-02T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T07:07:05","slug":"intelligent-squid-are-our-brothers-sisters-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/02\/intelligent-squid-are-our-brothers-sisters-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent squid are our brothers &amp; sisters too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nature<\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/special-issue-peopling-the-planet-1.10561\">Peopling the planet<\/a> issue out that is worth reading. Lots of the features are free to the public, but Chris Stringer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v485\/n7396\/full\/485033a.html\">comment<\/a> is not. Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns. Not what <em>is<\/em>, but what <em>should<\/em> be. Or, more precisely what should be the values we hold dear, rather than the reality of the world as it is. But this bit caught my attention: &#8220;Already I&#8217;m reading blogs that speculate about whether some groups are less &#8216;modern&#8217; than others, and I fear that such discussions endanger the considerable progress promised by palaeogenetic research.&#8221; Well, I know Chris drops in on this blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/10\/daily-data-dump-monday-21\/comment-page-1\/#comment-44660\">now and then<\/a>, so I hope he&#8217;s not talking about little old me!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Though more seriously, there are two issues where I want to dissent from Chris (or at least what I think he meant). I don&#8217;t know what he meant by &#8220;discussions endanger the considerable progress promised by palaeogenetic research,&#8221; but it sounds like he&#8217;s talking about what palaeogenetic research may imply for things which are not palaeogenetic research. At this point I think <strong>we should really start being more thorough about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has a Peopling the planet issue out that is worth reading. Lots of the features are free to the public, but Chris Stringer&#8217;s comment is not. Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns. Not what is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1185,2021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioethics","category-palaeogenetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68790","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=68790"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69313,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68790\/revisions\/69313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}