{"id":192672,"date":"2024-07-09T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future"},"modified":"2024-07-09T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:57:07","slug":"why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future","title":{"rendered":"Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren\u2019t an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident \u2013 and are likely to shrink again in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/colin-barras\/\" class=\"\">Colin Barras<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren\u2019t an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident \u2013 and are likely to shrink again in the near future. By Colin Barras<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192672","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=192672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}