{"id":173124,"date":"2023-09-29T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-single-gene-mutation-may-have-made-us-smarter-than-neanderthals"},"modified":"2023-09-29T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:25:59","slug":"a-single-gene-mutation-may-have-made-us-smarter-than-neanderthals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-single-gene-mutation-may-have-made-us-smarter-than-neanderthals","title":{"rendered":"A single gene mutation may have made us smarter than Neanderthals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-gene-mutation-may-have-made-us-smarter-than-neanderthals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we fully we understand intelligence it could be essentially increased to nearly infinite levels once everything is quantified like this article talks about \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Modern humans have a gene mutation that boosts the growth of neurons in the brain neocortex, a brain region associated with higher intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/michael-le-page\/\" class=\"\">Michael Le Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once we fully we understand intelligence it could be essentially increased to nearly infinite levels once everything is quantified like this article talks about \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01. Modern humans have a gene mutation that boosts the growth of neurons in the brain neocortex, a brain region associated with higher intelligence. By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173124","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}