{"id":12439,"date":"2015-03-19T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12439"},"modified":"2015-03-19T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:02:27","slug":"auction-multiply-signed-copy-of-why-evolution-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/auction-multiply-signed-copy-of-why-evolution-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction: Multiply-Signed Copy of Why Evolution Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a belated but very welcome spinoff of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/naturalism2012\/\">Moving Naturalism Forward<\/a> workshop from 2012: <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/\">Jerry Coyne<\/a> was clever enough to bring along a copy of his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne\/dp\/0143116649\/\"><em>Why Evolution Is True<\/em><\/a>, and have all the participants sign it. He subsequently gathered a few more distinguished autographs, and to make it just a bit more beautiful, artist Kelly Houle added some original illustrations. Jerry is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Why-Evolution-Is-True-by-Jerry-A-Coyne-2009-Hardcover-SIGNED-RARE-\/271810747304\">auctioning off the book<\/a> to benefit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit2.jpg\" alt=\"weit2\" width=\"594\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit2.jpg 594w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit2-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit3.jpg\" alt=\"weit3\" width=\"592\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit3.jpg 592w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/weit3-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of signatories:<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Barker<\/li>\n<li>Sean Carroll<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Coyne<\/li>\n<li>Richard Dawkins<\/li>\n<li>Terrence Deacon<\/li>\n<li>Simon DeDeo<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Dennett<\/li>\n<li>Owen Flanagan<\/li>\n<li>Anna Laurie Gaylor<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Goldstein<\/li>\n<li>Ben Goren<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Houle<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Krauss<\/li>\n<li>Janna Levin<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Ouellette<\/li>\n<li>Massimo Pigliucci<\/li>\n<li>Steven Pinker<\/li>\n<li>Carolyn Porco<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Pritzker<\/li>\n<li>Alex Rosenberg<\/li>\n<li>Don Ross<\/li>\n<li>Steven Weinberg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jerry is hoping it will fetch a good price to benefit the charity, so we&#8217;re spreading the word. I notice that a baseball signed by Mickey Mantle goes for <a href=\"https:\/\/11main.com\/steinersports\/mickey-mantle-signed-oal-baseball-w-no-7-insc-uda-auth\/p\/3156659?ref=DF4rcI_udU6GfakKSQwtHg&#038;kpid=3156659&#038;cid=cse_gg_collecting-%26-art__%5Bpla%5D-%28ca%29_55210497035&#038;utm_source=gg&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_term=_&#038;utm_content=11_main&#038;utm_campaign=[pla]-(ca)&#038;ref=DF4rcI_udU6GfakKSQwtHg&#038;kpid=3156659\">about $2000<\/a>. In my opinion a book signed by Steven Weinberg alone should go for even more, so just imagine what this is worth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Why-Evolution-Is-True-by-Jerry-A-Coyne-2009-Hardcover-SIGNED-RARE-\/271810747304\">You have ten days to get your bids in<\/a> &#8212; and if it&#8217;s a bit pricey for you personally, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s someone who loves you enough to buy it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a belated but very welcome spinoff of our Moving Naturalism Forward workshop from 2012: Jerry Coyne was clever enough to bring along a copy of his book, Why Evolution Is True, and have all the participants sign it. He subsequently gathered a few more distinguished autographs, and to make it just a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12444,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions\/12444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}