{"id":226009,"date":"2025-11-27T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-gps-hasnt-changed-in-millions-of-years-specialized-neurons-may-be-vital-to-evolutionary-survival"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:18","slug":"brains-gps-hasnt-changed-in-millions-of-years-specialized-neurons-may-be-vital-to-evolutionary-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-gps-hasnt-changed-in-millions-of-years-specialized-neurons-may-be-vital-to-evolutionary-survival","title":{"rendered":"Brain\u2019s GPS hasn\u2019t changed in millions of years: Specialized neurons may be vital to evolutionary survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-gps-hasnt-changed-in-millions-of-years-specialized-neurons-may-be-vital-to-evolutionary-survival2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer\u2019s disease have been preserved\u2014and even slightly increased\u2014across millions of years of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>A new University of Michigan study suggests these neurons are vital to evolutionary survival. Nature has guarded and amplified them through countless generations, helping mammals instinctively know where they are in their environments. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.2246-24.2025\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Journal of Neuroscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer\u2019s disease have been preserved\u2014and even slightly increased\u2014across millions of years of evolution. A new University of Michigan study suggests these neurons are vital to evolutionary survival. Nature has guarded and amplified them through countless generations, helping mammals instinctively know where they are in their environments. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226009","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\/226009","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=226009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}