{"id":218533,"date":"2025-07-23T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-challenge-theory-that-human-eye-evolution-was-driven-by-cooperation"},"modified":"2025-07-23T04:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:05:05","slug":"scientists-challenge-theory-that-human-eye-evolution-was-driven-by-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-challenge-theory-that-human-eye-evolution-was-driven-by-cooperation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists challenge theory that human eye evolution was driven by cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Fuo7axCWJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Humans are often said to be the only primates with \u201cwhites of the eyes,\u201d evolved for social communication. But a new study challenges that idea, arguing that the theory lacks evidence and oversimplifies the diversity of primate eye pigmentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are often said to be the only primates with \u201cwhites of the eyes,\u201d evolved for social communication. But a new study challenges that idea, arguing that the theory lacks evidence and oversimplifies the diversity of primate eye pigmentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218533","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=218533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}