{"id":152224,"date":"2022-12-08T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/massive-evidence-on-evolution-extinct-human-species-with-tiny-brains-used-fire-to-live-underground"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:30:42","slug":"massive-evidence-on-evolution-extinct-human-species-with-tiny-brains-used-fire-to-live-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/massive-evidence-on-evolution-extinct-human-species-with-tiny-brains-used-fire-to-live-underground","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Massive evidence\u2019 on evolution: Extinct human species with tiny brains \u2018used fire\u2019 to live underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-evidence-on-evolution-extinct-human-species-with-tiny-brains-used-fire-to-live-underground3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I almost died on the way out,\u2019 said the six-foot-two tall archeologist who lost 25 kgs to enter a 17.5-centimeter cave.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers claim to have discovered new evidence of extinct human species who lived in the underground caves of modern-day South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have massive evidence. It\u2019s everywhere,\u201d said Berger, who reported the findings in a press release and a Carnegie Science lecture at the Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Gulshan Khan\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>The archeological findings reveal that Homo naledi, a prehistoric human species used fires to prepare food and navigate in the darkness of underground caves, according to South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic explorer Lee Berger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I almost died on the way out,\u2019 said the six-foot-two tall archeologist who lost 25 kgs to enter a 17.5-centimeter cave. Researchers claim to have discovered new evidence of extinct human species who lived in the underground caves of modern-day South Africa. \u201cWe have massive evidence. It\u2019s everywhere,\u201d said Berger, who reported the findings in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152224","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}