{"id":234592,"date":"2026-04-04T02:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/burn-selection-how-fire-injury-shaped-human-evolution"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:47:49","slug":"burn-selection-how-fire-injury-shaped-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/burn-selection-how-fire-injury-shaped-human-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/burn-selection-how-fire-injury-shaped-human-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li data-bib-id=\"bies70109-bib-0010\"> 10 M. Bonta, R. Gosford, D. Eussen, N. Ferguson, E. Loveless, and M. Witwer, \u201cIntentional Fire-Spreading by \u201cFirehawk\u201d Raptors in Northern Australia,\u201d <i>Journal of Ethnobiology<\/i> 37, no. 4 (2017): 700 \u2013 718, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2993\/0278-0771-37.4.700\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2993\/0278-0771-37.4.700<\/a>.<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 M. Bonta, R. Gosford, D. Eussen, N. Ferguson, E. Loveless, and M. Witwer, \u201cIntentional Fire-Spreading by \u201cFirehawk\u201d Raptors in Northern Australia,\u201d Journal of Ethnobiology 37, no. 4 (2017): 700 \u2013 718, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2993\/0278-0771-37.4.700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234592","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=234592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}