{"id":234670,"date":"2026-04-06T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/they-could-spend-4-or-5-hours-per-day-underwater-how-humans-adapted-to-the-most-challenging-environments"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:11:14","slug":"they-could-spend-4-or-5-hours-per-day-underwater-how-humans-adapted-to-the-most-challenging-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/they-could-spend-4-or-5-hours-per-day-underwater-how-humans-adapted-to-the-most-challenging-environments","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They could spend 4 or 5 hours per day underwater\u2019: How humans adapted to the most challenging environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/they-could-spend-4-or-5-hours-per-day-underwater-how-humans-adapted-to-the-most-challenging-environments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the book \u201cAdaptable,\u201d evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer explores human biology and development, and how people have evolved to survive everywhere on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the book \u201cAdaptable,\u201d evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer explores human biology and development, and how people have evolved to survive everywhere on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234670","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}