{"id":223576,"date":"2025-10-17T12:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/evolution-of-intelligence-in-our-ancestors-may-have-come-at-a-cost"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:07:50","slug":"evolution-of-intelligence-in-our-ancestors-may-have-come-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/evolution-of-intelligence-in-our-ancestors-may-have-come-at-a-cost","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolution-of-intelligence-in-our-ancestors-may-have-come-at-a-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/christa-leste-lasserre\/\">Christa Lest\u00e9-Lasserre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christa Lest\u00e9-Lasserre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223576","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=223576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}