{"id":195450,"date":"2024-08-30T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/humanitys-newest-brain-gains-are-most-at-risk-from-ageing"},"modified":"2024-08-30T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:23:43","slug":"humanitys-newest-brain-gains-are-most-at-risk-from-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/humanitys-newest-brain-gains-are-most-at-risk-from-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s newest brain gains are most at risk from ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanitys-newest-brain-gains-are-most-at-risk-from-ageing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the more than six million years since people and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor, human brains have rapidly amassed tissue that helps decision-making and self-control.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The large prefrontal cortex provides evolutionary and cognitive advantages over non-human primates \u2014 but there\u2019s a cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the more than six million years since people and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor, human brains have rapidly amassed tissue that helps decision-making and self-control. The large prefrontal cortex provides evolutionary and cognitive advantages over non-human primates \u2014 but there\u2019s a cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195450","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}