{"id":940,"date":"2009-10-13T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-10-14T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:41:26","slug":"ardipithecus-and-pliocene-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/worldview\/ardipithecus-and-pliocene-progressivism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardipithecus and Pliocene Progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amusing to see how little time elapsed between the spectacular discovery of the Pliocene primate \u201cArdi\u201d and the revelation, based on study of her canine teeth, that she was a \u201cNew Soviet Woman,\u201d endowed with all the progressive behavioral characteristics pertaining thereto.  In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/time\/20091002\/hl_time\/08599192720000\">we learn<\/a> that she lived harmoniously as a co-equal partner with small-fanged males who shared their food with her, helped rear her offspring, and spared her the unseemly spectacle of fighting with other males for her favors.  No doubt if we find a few more teeth we will discover that she was an innocent victim of imperialism and colonialism perpetrated by less worthy primates who diverged from the direct human line at a very early date, and that her carbon footprint was unusually small for a Pliocene mammal. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ardipithecus2.jpg\" alt=\"ardipithecus2\" title=\"ardipithecus2\" width=\"461\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ardipithecus2.jpg 461w, https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ardipithecus2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 85vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Ardipithecus+and+Pliocene+Progressivism\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/worldview\/ardipithecus-and-pliocene-progressivism\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amusing to see how little time elapsed between the spectacular discovery of the Pliocene primate \u201cArdi\u201d and the revelation, based on study of her canine teeth, that she was a \u201cNew Soviet Woman,\u201d endowed with all the progressive behavioral characteristics pertaining thereto. In particular, we learn that she lived harmoniously as a co-equal partner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/worldview\/ardipithecus-and-pliocene-progressivism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ardipithecus and Pliocene Progressivism&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-human-nature","category-worldview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-fa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}