{"id":181133,"date":"2024-01-22T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/harvard-scientists-discover-surprising-hidden-catalyst-in-human-brain-evolution"},"modified":"2024-01-22T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:25:41","slug":"harvard-scientists-discover-surprising-hidden-catalyst-in-human-brain-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/harvard-scientists-discover-surprising-hidden-catalyst-in-human-brain-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists Discover Surprising Hidden Catalyst in Human Brain Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-discover-surprising-hidden-catalyst-in-human-brain-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study hypothesizes that \u2018pre-digested\u2019 foods contributed to the development of larger brains. The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from a smaller primate brain into the creative, complex organ of today is a mystery. Scientists can pinpoint when our evolutionary ancestors evolved larger brains, which roughly tripled in size as human ancestors evolved from the bipedal primates known as Australopithecines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study hypothesizes that \u2018pre-digested\u2019 foods contributed to the development of larger brains. The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from a smaller primate brain into the creative, complex organ of today is a mystery. Scientists can pinpoint when our evolutionary ancestors evolved larger brains, which roughly tripled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181133","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}