{"id":217847,"date":"2025-07-14T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/70000-years-ago-humans-underwent-a-major-shift-thats-why-we-exist"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:08:11","slug":"70000-years-ago-humans-underwent-a-major-shift-thats-why-we-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/70000-years-ago-humans-underwent-a-major-shift-thats-why-we-exist","title":{"rendered":"70,000 Years Ago Humans Underwent a Major Shift \u2014 That\u2019s Why we Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/70000-years-ago-humans-underwent-a-major-shift-thats-why-we-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217847","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}