{"id":127956,"date":"2021-09-22T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/do-microbes-make-us-social"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:22:19","slug":"do-microbes-make-us-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/do-microbes-make-us-social","title":{"rendered":"Do Microbes Make Us Social?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-microbes-make-us-social2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microbes may have influenced the evolution of the social brain and behavior as a means to propagate their own genetic material.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Cryan, Dinan, et al., November 2,019 Science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In an effort to extend their territory, microbes may push us to socialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbes may have influenced the evolution of the social brain and behavior as a means to propagate their own genetic material. \u2014Cryan, Dinan, et al., November 2,019 Science. In an effort to extend their territory, microbes may push us to socialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}