{"id":221592,"date":"2025-09-09T03:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-evolution-explains-autism-rates-in-humans"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:50:27","slug":"how-evolution-explains-autism-rates-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-evolution-explains-autism-rates-in-humans","title":{"rendered":"How evolution explains autism rates in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-evolution-explains-autism-rates-in-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paper in <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution<\/i> finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled \u201cA general principle of neuronal evolution reveals a human accelerated neuron type potentially underlying the high prevalence of autism in humans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled \u201cA general principle of neuronal evolution reveals a human accelerated neuron type potentially underlying the high prevalence of autism in humans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221592","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}