{"id":165235,"date":"2023-06-06T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-discover-1st-species-outside-of-humans-to-bury-their-dead"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:23:31","slug":"scientists-discover-1st-species-outside-of-humans-to-bury-their-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-discover-1st-species-outside-of-humans-to-bury-their-dead","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover 1st species outside of humans to bury their dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-1st-species-outside-of-humans-to-bury-their-dead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin.<\/p>\n<p>Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa\u2019s Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans \u2014 a characteristic researchers previously attributed to a marker of far less intelligence than its Homo sapien relatives.<\/p>\n<p>But the assertion that bigger brains make for a smarter species may have been disestablished now that scientists have made a harrowing journey into the Rising Star cave and discovered that the species \u2014 which lived about 335,000 to 236,000 years ago \u2014 buried its dead and marked the graves. It is the first non-human species in history known to do so, paleoanthropologist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/earliest-human-burial-homo-naledi-berger\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> National Geographic<\/a> Explorer in Residence Lee Berger told ABC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa\u2019s Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans \u2014 a characteristic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165235","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}