{"id":173,"date":"2009-07-19T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/what-is-mans-greatest-achievement.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:02:17","slug":"what-is-mans-greatest-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/what-is-mans-greatest-achievement.html","title":{"rendered":"What is man&#8217;s greatest achievement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So posits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/space\/07\/19\/man.greatest.achievement\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. Ignoring the sexist wording, my answer is culture. Culture, shared and learned behavior, allowed humans to adapt rapidly to their environment in a way far more efficient and responsive than natural selection. The accumulation of these shared behaviors across generations leads to the other common answers as reported by cnn.com: writing, music, technology, landing on the moon, etc..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So posits CNN. Ignoring the sexist wording, my answer is culture. Culture, shared and learned behavior, allowed humans to adapt rapidly to their environment in a way far more efficient and responsive than natural selection. The accumulation of these shared behaviors across generations leads to the other common answers as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/what-is-mans-greatest-achievement.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;What is man&#8217;s greatest achievement?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[181],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}